Word: shun
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Irving concluded: "I ask you to weigh well the advantages which may present themselves to you before you try to part with, to minimize, or to forego in any way your own individuality. Study it without being egotistic, and understanding the weak places, shun their temptations and try to protect yourself by added strength. Knowing yourself, you may learn to know others; and so in process of time you will both consciously and unconsciously learn those abiding principles of human nature and of human character which add to the knowledge and the progress of the world...
...church-going man. Often he cannot understand the forms of the church and stays away; yet he believes implicitly in Christ and wants him for a friend. For him there is no real need of all that is outward and formal but he must cleave to the right and shun wrong with unswerving steadiness. Finally the natural man is he to whom duty and truth are foolishness; to the spiritual man they are everything and the lesson for us all to learn from this is always to recognize God's children where and in whatever state we find them...
...terms, a strong flavor of insincerity. Add to this her refusal to arrange a deciding game with Brown and we see another glimmer of that same fearful spirit which for two years has characterized her baseball managements. It is a poor and unsportsmanlike feeling which will prompt one to shun an even battle and we think that Yale has distinctly lowered her reputation for grit and manly bearing in athletics by the policy she has adopted...
...right line, a straight line in the direct way from earth to heaven. Make your uttered profession whenever your silence would mean assent or indifference. Show your colors and stand by them but do not parade them out of season. Do nothing for effect; always act your Christian self. Shun religious cliques...