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...time has come when Thou must reappear to all of us and give a peremptory and unmistakable sign to this generation. Thou seest, Jesus, our need; Thou knowest how great it is, Thou canst not fail to recognize how imperative is our necessity, how heavy and real our anguish, our deprivation, our desperation. Thou knowest how much we have need of Thy intervention, how necessary is Thy return...
...Prussia for a regenerated Germany. But it is nevertheless true that the spirit of the whole work of legislative reform which brought about the reconstruction of Prussia after the battle of Jena would not have been what it was but for the influence of Kant's thought. 'Thou canst, for thou shalt'--these words in which Kant epigramatically summed up his view of life were indeed the fundamental creed of all those noble men who, in the years following the Prussian debacle, tried, as Frederick William III said, to help the state 'to replace by spiritual agencies what...
...Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i' the middle on's face?" 1912 PHOTOGRAPH COMMITTEE...
...have been some doubt as to whether the theft was justifiable or not. Are we not laying ourselves open to the charge of upholding as a principle of our university life one which is worthy only of a band of thieves: "From any outsider steal all that thou canst-but woe unto thee if thou stealest aught from thy brother thief...
...struggle of individualities a knowledge of one's own, with its strength and weakness, is of the first importance. There were never wiser words spoken than those of old Polonius; "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." But how can a man be true to himself, if he does not know himself; and how can he know himself if he mistrusts his own identity, and puts aside his special gifts in order to render himself an imperfect similitude of some one else...