Work and Play: Talks with StudentsPilgrim Press, 1900 - 208 páginas |
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... friends will not be disappointed in the great ends which have brought you here . The college boy becomes a man , not before but during his student days . The fiber and the stamina of his future years depend on the grit and self- control ...
... friends will not be disappointed in the great ends which have brought you here . The college boy becomes a man , not before but during his student days . The fiber and the stamina of his future years depend on the grit and self- control ...
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... friends and especially to his teachers . Now it is generally true that a student's advancement will be in proportion to his diligence in study , and this is what we naturally expect . But it was not so in the case of General Grant , it ...
... friends and especially to his teachers . Now it is generally true that a student's advancement will be in proportion to his diligence in study , and this is what we naturally expect . But it was not so in the case of General Grant , it ...
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... a bounding pulse . Many people are cyn- ics without knowing it . They are under- vitalized , overworked - victims of worry and borrowed trouble . Their friends sometimes think them profound , but who would not rather 52 Work and Play.
... a bounding pulse . Many people are cyn- ics without knowing it . They are under- vitalized , overworked - victims of worry and borrowed trouble . Their friends sometimes think them profound , but who would not rather 52 Work and Play.
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... behind with a sense of relief , and hurry away to the athletic field or the gymnasium , or to the familiar haunts of your friends and playmates . Do not become prema- turely blasé , and look on with a lazy indifference 54 Work and Play.
... behind with a sense of relief , and hurry away to the athletic field or the gymnasium , or to the familiar haunts of your friends and playmates . Do not become prema- turely blasé , and look on with a lazy indifference 54 Work and Play.
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... friends . The sports of childhood and youth train the will . Games of strength or skill appeal to each contestant to put forth his utmost efforts . Again and again the test recurs , and each time the will marshals all the forces at its ...
... friends . The sports of childhood and youth train the will . Games of strength or skill appeal to each contestant to put forth his utmost efforts . Again and again the test recurs , and each time the will marshals all the forces at its ...
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Work and Play: Talks with Students (Classic Reprint) John Edwin Bradley Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
ability acquire aims amusements appetite aristocracy aspiration asso athletics become better carried CASTLES IN SPAIN cerning character college boy college days culture daily danger Daniel Webster dents develop dream drink Duke of Wellington duty earnest effort ence energies enthusiasm Eton exer exercise fail faith football fortunate foundation friends gained Garfield give glad Gladstone gymnasium hand heraldry honor hope ical ideal important impulse influence inspiration intel INTELLECTUAL GROWTH intellectual worker interest kink lege less lessons live look manhood manly ment mental mind Moral discipline muscles nature ness never one's pathy physical politics preparation purpose quire reserve power result SAMUEL JOHNSON says sleep soul spirit strength strong sure teaches temptations thee things tion train true truth ture uncon unconsciously vigor WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE yield young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 133 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.
Página 137 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Página 201 - Let it be our hope to make a gentleman of every youth who is put under our charge, not a conventional gentleman but a man of culture, a man of intellectual resource, a man of public spirit, a man of refinement, with that good taste which is the conscience of the mind and that conscience which is the good taste of the soul.
Página 36 - The law of nature, is, that a certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good, of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it.
Página 129 - He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Página 20 - I would the great world grew like thee, Who grewest not alone in power And knowledge, but by year and hour In reverence and in charity.
Página 145 - I HAVE read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man than anything which he said.
Página 85 - Habit at first is but a silken thread, Fine as the light-winged gossamers that sway In the warm sunbeams of a summer's day ; A shallow streamlet, rippling o'er its bed ; A tiny sapling, ere its roots are spread ; A yet unhardened thorn upon the spray ; A lion's whelp that hath not scented prey ; A little smiling child obedient led. Beware ! that thread may bind thee as a chain ; That streamlet gather to a fatal sea ; •That sapling spread into a gnarled tree ; That thorn, grown hard, may wound and...
Página 95 - Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven, from which his crimes exclude him...
Página 192 - Cultivate the physical exclusively, and you have an athlete or a savage ; the moral only, and you have an enthusiast or a maniac; the intellectual only, and you have a diseased oddity — it may be a monster. It is only by wisely training all three together that tho complete man can be formed.