Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...believe that truth in its best sense is to be found in any narrow or confined circle of study, but much rather in expatiation over many fields. And we should never forget that fine saying of Lessing's: "Not the truth which one has arrived at, or thinks he has arrived at, but the honest zeal with which he has endeavored to follow truth makes the worth of a man. For it is not through the possession of truth but through the search after it that his powers expand, and in that alone consists his ever-growing perfection. Possession makes...
from the rest of the week. It is the day he puts on his best clothes, washes up, and lays aside completely the ordinary work and care of the week days. But to us, who make little change in dress or observances, it is very easy in time to forget that the day is Sunday at all. Now it is just as essential to our physical well-being as to that of the laboring man that on one day of the week we lay aside the cares and toil of the other six days. Many a student learns this lesson...
...could then witness the roughest, the toughest, the most corrupt heap of humanity that mortal man has ever seen. Politics everywhere is moaning beneath such men, to whom government is a thing of the past, and equity of the right sort unknown. Blindly fighting for party rights, they forget their country's welfare. We cannot look to our party for political purity, for from the highest to the lowest politician there are stains of corruption and taints of pollution. There is no form of vice which is not by them well represented; till the term politician has come to mean...
...Paul wrote in his first letter to the Thessalonians, the people that he loved better than any others. He meant that he wanted to give the Thessalonians everything that was in his power, even to his own life. This is the sort of men needed today, men who can forget their own welfare and dedicate themselves to the service of others. The words of Christ, "We are members of one another," are better understood now than they were fifty years ago. The only way that a man can do any good is by remembering that he is a member...
...only welfare is our eternal welfare. Our highest glory on earth is to cause others to forget our particular individualities, and, by showing in our lives the glory of God, to bring others to a conception...