Word: never
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...social problem upon the solution of which we shall not enter until the marks are out in Ethics nineteen: but truly is not the cause and effect as plainly seen as in the Nihilism of Russia, or the Home Rulism in England? Coercion must be stopped, else the millenium never will be here...
...When the labor is excessive the heart will become tired, the pulsations very rapid, but feeble, and unless exertion is brought to an end mischief will follow. Disease of the blood vessel is, however, of rare occurrence in early life, and any young man who is so affected should never for one instant think of subjecting himself to violent athletic sports. By a common and silent consent, the objection to active exercise passes over the ordinary ill received, and fixes itself almost entirely on one organ, the heart, and there, on almost one malady alone, hypertrophy, the overgrowth...
There were never so many candidates for the mile walk as there are this year...
...writers who need not hope for immortality, but the grave. Although a Shelley, a Coleridge, or a Wordsworth may in his college days have penned despicable lines, we have no right to argue that one who here pens more despicable verse will be a greater than Wordsworth. A veil, never to be raised, hides the agony of authorship, more poignant than the sorrows of Werther, with which some poems, now hidden in the brains of their authors and the basket of the editor, have been forged. And yet it is from such a school that the poets of the future...
...mind a few well-known facts. The pursuit should be adapted to the capacity of the man. Trite as this statement may appear, perhaps there is none that is usually less regarded in the choice of a profession. All about us we see men striving to become what nature never meant they should be. Accountants, who might succeed if they stuck to that for which they are fitted, become starving "poets." Men of good sense, capable of being good doctors or able lawyers, waste their store of intellect upon wretched attempts at humour. The most important thing has, in their...