Word: friend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...know what a religious life is until we feel a jubilant enthusiasm You will often have this or that person say It is easy enough for him to be lighthearted; it is his temperament. I wish I had such a disposition." The true reason that your friend is light-hearted is that he has a closer walk with God. He knows this is God's world, he sees God in everything he does, wherever he goes. He lives in God, he moves in God, and in God he has his being. It should be the aim of science, history, philosophy...
When you are asked to speak sit down and write your most intimate friend what you are going to say. Perhaps you'll find you haven't anything to say. Then very likely the probable death of your grandmother will prevent your accepting the invitation. If you find you have something to say pick out the most important points and decide how many minutes you intend to give each. Above all do not permit yourself to change your plan. - Napoleon said "if you set out to take Vienna take Vienna." Make up your mind what you are going...
Professor Francke made a departure from the announced program of the evening to call the attention of the meeting to the possible influence of Hypneratomachia Poliphili published in Venice in 1499 on the second part of Goethe's Faust. The correspondence between Goethe and his friend Gottling, professor at Jena, shows that Goethe knew of the above mentioned work but had little or no acquaintance with the text. This book is full of wood-cuts strikingly suggestive of much of the second part of Faust, and as the correspondence took place at the same time Goethe was writing this half...
...Lowell's Letters" They were addressed to the art-critic and appreciator, Mr. W. J. Stillman. They are filled with clever things and a fascination which make them delightful reading and gives us an idea of of what Lowell, not the poet - but the companion - the friend - must have been...
...would be made to secure it as the nucleus of a museum of archaeology and ethnology in Chicago. It is evident that there is but one suitable depository for such a collection - the museum of the University. Prof. Putnam doubtless had this in mind in making the suggestion. What friend of the University will assist it to secure this great prize? - University News...