Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...will be verse and nothing more; for the talents which enable him to succeed in the former are quite different from those necessary for success in the latter. He had better, then, confine himself to efforts in which success is certain, rather than seek after that which is virtually beyond his reach, not being attainable by human effort, but being a gift of nature...
...Friars, the name of which reminds us that it too was established in one of the monasteries of that great order now hardly represented but by the monks of the Grande Chartreuse. The founder of Gray Friars, however, was not a king, but a very ordinary person, though wise beyond most men in the disposal of his fortune, - one Thomas Sutton, whose death, December 14, 1611, is yearly commemorated on Founder's Day by the whole school, as all will remember who have read the Newcomes, though in that beautiful description Thackeray has not given the quaint verse regularly sung...
...misfortune" nor "fate" seem to apply to that condition of positive evil which the tendency of the age to extravagance and luxurious living has brought about. The "form and pressure of the times" have not been subdued to their proper confines, but have been allowed to increase and swell beyond proportion, and with these neither "fate" nor "misfortune" has had anything to do. The records of the past week have made known a heavy embezzlement by the cashier of the Treasury Department of the State of New York, amounting to $ 300,000, developing a system of fraud almost unparaleled. Within...
...parents; the others took what did not belong to them for purposes of rash speculation, or to cover debts. This is the old story over again, - each embezzler meaning to restore the funds, but none doing so. Making haste to be rich, the dishonest inclination to live beyond one's means, to equal or outshine others, - these all excite to that demoniacal spirit of evil which leads downwards to destruction, and makes only the difference of a crooked "s" between peculation and speculation, both despoilers of the highest attributes of our nature. As to this expectation of "paying back," which...
...bundle under his arm and $ 3 in his pocket" to enter into partnership with his brother. We might mention similar examples, but these are enough. We would commend them to students of Harvard who will sooner or later be launched into the busy world. KEEP HONOR BRIGHT. Never go beyond your means. Beware of inflated credit or illegitimate speculation,-the rocks upon which so many split. Keep alive the nicest conscientiousness as regards the property of others; and, above all things, never be jealous of contemporary wealth. If poverty be yours, remember that it is no disgrace, and seek...