Word: heavens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...love, great in the depth of his sorrow, great in his elevated personality, great in his admiration for his University, great in his patriotism, great in his ideas as to the destiny of our race, great in his influence for good, like the genial and vivifying rain from heaven. We know that 'Nature might stand up and say to all the world: This...
...lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
...habit formed. "Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so small scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for each fresh dereliction by saying, "I wont count this time." Well, he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it, but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres, the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out." In this...