Word: minded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pretend to be liberally educated should avoid them for the sake of their own reputation for common-sense. A man can make more sweeping assertions in five minutes than he could prove in a lifetime, and a habit of doing so is almost invariably a sign of an immature mind and a narrow judgment...
...unnatural. The ordinary, half-educated American seizes upon every plan which has the recommendation of novelty, and considers that the accidental fact that he was born on the western shore of the Atlantic enables him to solve every problem that was ever offered to the human mind with an enthusiasm which is at once amusing and disgusting. Any civilized person can see that our countrymen of the present day have become far more ridiculous than our Revolutionary ancestors could have been sublime. And the impulse of every civilized person is to evince the fact of his civilization by making...
...need not make yourself like them. If you remember one of my old rules, you will always be right. Never do a thing which you will be ashamed, if need be, to confess. If you are true to yourself, you will never know what shame means. Make up your mind to be something, whatever that something may be. And be, if you can, something more than a prattler of stupid advice like...
...things that every paper must insist upon: one is, that articles shall be written only on one side of the paper; and another, that the writer's name shall in every case be known to the Editors. Will those who favor us with communications please bear these facts in mind...
...Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, although "the young men are stimulated to think for themselves upon controverted points, and care is taken to acquaint them with the objections which must be met before satisfactory conclusions can be reached," the result often unsettles conviction and produces "a sceptical turn of mind which is the more hopeless because it thinks itself rational and scientific." In Philosophy 3, the Critique of Judgment is recommended in place of Shopenhauer and Hartmann. The Committee think that Junior Logic might be removed to the Freshman year, and even to the preparatory schools, were they what they should...