Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose I have sketched an extreme and sombre picture of trifling with that eye that started single; but in lesser degree every man must guard his vision jealously lest he fall short of the highest character that he would reach; for a dimness of the moral sight, a blunting of the keen edge of sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former...
...should we keep our eye single and our vision clear? We cannot see our selves as others see us. Perhaps it would be neither pleasant nor profitable if we could. It might merely substitute one distorted image for another...
...purpose I have sketched an extreme and sombre picture of trifling with that eye that started single; but in lesser degree every man must guard his vision jealously lest he fall short of the highest character that he would reach; for a dimness of the moral sight, a blunting of the keen edge of sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former...
...should we keep our eye single and our vision clear? We cannot see our selves as others see us. Perhaps it would be neither pleasant nor profitable if we could. It might merely substitute one distorted image for another...
...called Conscience," recommended George Washington to his successors at the close of his public career. This advice found its correlative yesterday afternoon in the text chosen for the Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating class in Appleton Chapel, the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, "if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." But President Lowell made opening acknowledgement of the verity that what seems right at one time and meets the apparent approval of the conscience, "the light of the body" that is the eye, often leads to results unforeseen, undesired...