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...fixed it is very hard to overcome them. Phillips Brooks once said: "Let us do what we can at once, for our power is slipping away from us." The third reason why the invitation of Christ should come first is that the acceptance of Christ is the foundation of noblest character...
...once wrote, and he was about to take up that kind of writing which mirrors the moral ideals of the world, the law of which is love. If "Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's most powerful book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does not lie in its rich and beautiful style, nor in the strength of its plot, nor in the accuracy of its historical description, but rather in the deep and tender sympathy and comprehension of human nature that Thackeray has so marvelously expressed. In "Henry Esmond," in "Pendennis" and "The Newcomes...
...regard to professional life one should not be governed solely by the desire for money. Money is a means, but not an end. Every Harvard man might well be advised to enter politics. It is the noblest of all professions, and the vulgar term of "politician" should be stamped out. Make the politics pure, and by that alone our Country can be saved. The laws must follow and agree with public conscience, not preceed...
...William Dean Howell read from some of his published essays yesterday afternoon in the Fogg Lecture Room, his subject being "Liberty and Equality." He said in part: Liberty is not in itself a good; it is only a means for obtaining good. In its noblest, simplest terms liberty is self-sacrifice. This self-sacrifice begins with the first step in civilization and is the end of the savage's self-assertion. The earliest use that a citizen of a liberated state makes of his freedom is to give up some part of it for the common good. But the poor...
...White, a well-known Shaksperean critic, describes "King Lear" as of all Shakspere's plays the largest in conception, the noblest in design, and the highest in art. Although almost universally associated with the three other great tragedies of Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth, it differs from all three in its essential purpose. Hamlet is a play of inaction and indecision; Othello is the story of the down fall of a great soul through jealousy, Macbeth that of a man overcome by ambition. The distinction of "King Lear" lies in the fact that it displays the tragic power of retribution over...