Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will allow the value of antecedents of this kind. He will admit that education raises a man above the level of his ignorant fellows; and he will hardly deny that a person who has always been surrounded by cultivated and refined people has a presumptive advantage over one whose life has been passed with the comparatively uneducated classes...
...there is nothing great but mind"; why then should we let anything take us for a moment from our minds? We come here to cultivate them; why then attend to anything else? It is a waste of time to take three hours a day from this short life of ours and devote them to filling our stomachs with food; to occupy precious moments (when we might be storing our minds instead of our stomachs) with an employment which requires no exercise of the intellectual powers. How many hours we fritter away in a hundred employments that we might devote...
...soul-refreshing spirit-life is passed...
...life is but a spirit, breathing, growing...
...wondrous life beamed brightly everywhere...