Word: following
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...must be pitted against those of others; and in the 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...
...elements of the painting of this period combined. He was a pupil of Savonarola, and was a charming painter if not a great one. The leader of the new awakening in art in Florence was Mazatio, a man whom Raphael and Michael Angelo did not disdain to follow. Many men of other schools also were drawn to Florence who in time adopted the Florentine School. At this period there were really in Italy, but two great schools, the Florentine and the Venetian. All the others were small branches from these...
...more than usually devoted to fiction. The number opens, however, with a somewhat lengthy consideration of "The Humour of Caucer," by J. B. Holmes, prolonged to such an extent that the interest of the reader is in danger of flagging before the end is reached. The articles which follow will be more pleasing to the average mind,- a poem called "Louie Rae," by Bliss Carman, and three stories...
...must always remember that complete darkness never comes, that there is no time when there is not some suggestion of light. there are none to whom darkness never comes, just as there are none who have not their times of light, for God never leaves those who trust and follow him without some evidence of his presence...
another result. God holds us responsible for our labor, time, talents and all that goes to make our life. Then again we can only follow out the text of brotherly love when we recognize that God loves us and brings us up just as a mother cares for her children, giving to no one of us more than He gives to another...