Word: truthfully
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...schools at Oxford and Cambridge opened to the public and by so doing be of great aid to the work. The idea that education is an impetus to high social position is gradually dying out and in its place is growing the belief that knowledge is the path to truth and happiness...
...great trouble with a man's perfecting himself is the fact of self-consciousness. The man who aims directly at making himself perfect gets in his own way. Right here the law of indirectness begins to act. Almost all the truth comes to us indirectly. Eloquence of the highest sort expresses itself in figures of speech and poetry, especially, naturally clothes itself in metaphor. So it is with the man who seeks perfection. His seeking must be along an indirect line or it becomes mere selfishness...
Could there be a worthier memorial monument of any man who cared for the advance of truth than a library such as that which the university should have...
...said: The dogmatic explanation of the manifestation of life is that John has seen life everlasting. This explanation, however, does not answer, for endless life can't be manifested to man. The elements referred to are the moral and spiritual elements, perfect divine humanity and perfect truth...
...truly heroic life, is there not something more than human? We can estimate pleasure, but who can say how much it is one's duty to do this or that? The difference between truth and falsehood is immeasurable; one can't take an intermediate stand. A mother's love is limitless; it gives all and lasts forever. Was there not a divine element in the death of Sydney Carleton, and though but fiction, what a lesson it should teach us! Should we not in our lives include divine elements? Emerson well phrased it in the following aphorisom: "Don't leave...