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...getting it, it has taught him to be himself, and not to ape somebody else. The in different man who goes out on the common ways of life, saying to himself "Go to, I will not be in different," is likely to make an as of himself. "To thine own self be true," indifference and all provided, of course, the sentiment or the appearance is genuine. The opposite of indifference is vivacity, susceptibility, enthusiasm. Alluring qualities. But what a jackanapes is he who merely affects them. At least the honesty of policy or habit which lets indifference stand when...
...world, I e'en must leave thee." Professor Davison. Air, Bach Miss Curtis. Caprice, Guilmant Pastorale, Franck Professor Davison. Romance, Rachmaninoff Miss Curtis. Choral Prelude, "O man bewail thine awful sin," Bach Finale (First Symphony), Vierne Professor Davison...
...going to foreclose the mortgage, shake him from his trust. When he believes Jimmy Caesar, the neighbor hood coward and a rejected suitor of Hannah, to have killed Withrow, his only feeling is one of sorrow that revenge has been taken in defiance of the clear precept, "Love thine enemies----" Even his brother's failure to post in time a letter containing money for the mortgage leaves him with no sense of bitterness...
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine...
...thine own self be true" is the one sentiment which can be relied upon to strike an answering chord in every breast. The laudable idea of the poet may have been that we should not lie, thieve or otherwise misbehave at the urging of another; but in actual practice his exhortation is used to justify all manner of eccentricities and even crimes...