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...influence that will spread from generation to generation far beyond his sight. Much of the good in our natures has come to us mediately from men and women we never saw, of whom sometimes we have never heard; and any one may do the same for others yet unborn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUCCESSES OFTEN BUILT ON EARLY SEEMING FAILURES | 6/19/1923 | See Source »

Thenceforth, although clear-visioned and a God's evangelist, she must bear with the mockery of her countrymen. Only Coroebus, though he himself can not believe, does not mock. So alone with him upon the sands, . . . she lifted up her eyes Dimed with the tears of unborn prophecies, and spoke her knowledge, foretelling the ruin of her city, in words that lack neither dignity nor inspiration. And as she finishes they hear the ships. The passage that concludes the poem is filled with the very breath of Night, and the fearful charm of a faintly broken silence...

Author: By C. Macv., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF CHRISTMAS 1921 POETRY BURLESQUE HISTORY BIOGRAPHY | 12/16/1921 | See Source »

...representative magazine is not yet; the anthology of Harvard's "best" is-still unborn, but the Advocate is awake and doing its share toward letting us know what the majority of undergraduates can and do write; and, it is to be hoped, read. Possibly the isolated genius does not flourish in these pages, and perhaps there are here no signs of that rara avis, the average student. But infallibly there is worth-while work from men blessed with ideas and ability to express them

Author: By K. B. Murdock ., | Title: MURDOCK PRAISES ADVOCATE | 5/9/1919 | See Source »

Surely 1918, which has shown itself so unified before, will not fall now. That one event which is peculiarly of the class must be successful. It must set a standard for youthful 1919 and 1920, and dim, unborn classes to follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE JUNIOR SATURNALIA | 1/27/1917 | See Source »

...evil desires and the purification of the soul was the one fundamental aim of religion. As to the question as to whether the Buddha existed after the death, they refused to answer it. They believed in the existence of a realm beyond that of the phenomenal, the unborn, but the relation of the Buddha and the saints to this realm is left undefined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Carpenter's Lecture. | 10/26/1894 | See Source »

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