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Word: going (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Every mind and every body has its maximum of energy; up to this point one can go with impunity, but to attempt further advance is to fail. As the machine lasts in proportion to the use or abuse of it, and as its power depends partly upon the care taken of it, so the mind and body, if subjected to continual strain, so much the sooner break down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FESTINA LENTE. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

...tediousness of a six months' drill. This is certainly poor economy. A business man pursuing such a course would be immediately condemned as a bad calculator. It is plain, then, that a remedy for this miscalculation is needed. A short vacation at the time suggested above would go far toward correcting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...truth that liveth, the thoughts that go...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...mind uninstructed in the mysteries of science, the starry firmament must have presented a great and wonderful scene. Its silence! its splendor! its immensity! its blue diamond-studded arch, resting upon the unseen and the unknown! Those wonderful lights! What are they? Whence do they come? Whither do they go?" The concluding article, "Perishable," is still more sermon-like than its companions, but is short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...should go with such a girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

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