Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reality with truth. Everything ought to start from the truth, and everything ought to tend toward the ideal. The stage is a school of manners, it ought not to be a school of medicine...
LOST, in Alcove 4 Library, an Ideal fountain pen. Will the finder please drop it into 5 Weld...
Unfortunately this ideal university is so far away in the future that it is possible that no one now living will ever make use of its advantages or even witness its establishment...
...marry that his beauty may survive in his children. This thought of a merely physical immortality was too narrow, and seemed in-adequate. The poet then imagined that he could triumph over Time by immortalizing his friend in his verse. This hope also proved delusive; for the ideal is not the actual, the remembrance is not the person...
...toward Him, we must keep him in our hearts from our youth up. The days of childhood are days of impressions. As we grow older our perceptions become duller, and our lives are less easily molded. Wax must be stamped when it is warm. Whenever a man raises an ideal late in life, he always regrets the possibility of achievement which might have been his, had he awakened sooner. If we begin early to follow the example of Christ, the goodness which at first comes by reflection will become instinctive...