Word: vision
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Peabody conducted the vesper service yesterday-the last one of the season. Mr. Peabody spoke from the text: "Where there is no vision the people perish," and said...
...wonder the word "vision" became a proverb among the Jews, Over and over again they relapsed, but there was constantly held before them by their prophets the vision of a beautiful land. Where there are no visions the people perish. It is not what a nation possesses or acquires, but it is the national idea which pervades its life. Our own country is not great by what it has, but what it dreams. It is our national ideas which keep us safe and pure...
...leads one into a larger and deeper range of life into an enlargement of the vision, then it has been truly liberal. Where there are no visions life is narrow and dry. Let us cherish them, then, for they lift us upward and onward...