Word: lose
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...habits of study in college and after. A test like the entrance examination eliminates many of the fit and not all of the unfit. The uniformity acquired by such a system makes it easier for the college, no doubt. But what the manager gains by a "system" the managed lose; and their loss is the loss of the community...
...country lies in holding up the hands of the labor conservatives, not necessarily by servile acquiescence in their views, but at least by a patient and sympathetic co-operation through which alone a satisfactory compromise can in the end be effected. If we are agreed on principle, we lose that gain which is half the battle by throwing over as worthless the propositions of any party to the problem. D. T. EATON...
...October 15, the reformers are already fighting one of the evils which must be uprooted to permit out quest of happiness. For the country is now learning that tobacco is a vile poison, a "rather unnecessary and not universally worshipped vegetable." The W. C. T. U. will therefore lose no time in plucking the "weed" from the garden of bliss which will be ours when the enterprise will have been successful...
Fanatics are persons educated in the heart alone at the expense of the head and common sense. Fanatics are obsessed with emotions and visions. They do not think straight--often they do not think honestly. Radical reformers are too often filled with so many emotions as altogether to lose sight of the safe and sane. The difference between a genius and a fanatic is the difference between emotion tempered with reason and emotion without the calm which comes from a true education and the proper use of the brain. The world is troubled with an abnormal education of the heart...
...poets cannot always, declare with Carlyle that there is nothing else but justice in the universe, they can at least assert the ultimate triumph of justice. They believer that whether you or I win or lose, the "forts of folly" will one day fall. If beaten in the lower court of the understanding, they made their proud appeal to Caesar, to the imperial rights of the imagination...