The Price of a SoulFunk & Wagnalls, 1914 - 72 páginas |
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Página 66 - A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.
Página 57 - It is upon the heart-level that we meet ; it is by the characteristics of the heart that we best know and best remember each other. Astronomers tell us the distance of each star from the earth, but no mathematician can calculate the influence which a noble teacher may exert upon posterity. And yet even the teacher may fall from his high estate, and, forgetting his immeasurable responsibility, yield to the temptation to estimate his work by its pecuniary reward.
Página 18 - ... but if I presented a list containing the name of every man, who, since time began, earned such an enormous sum, one thing would be true of all of them, namely: that in not a single case did the man collect the full amount. The men who have earned five...
Página 69 - Our most fertile soil is to be found in the minds and the hearts of our people, and our most important manufacturing plants are not our factories, with their smoking chimneys, but our schools, our colleges and our churches, which take in a priceless raw material and turn out the most valuable finished product that the world has known. We enjoy by inheritance, or by choice, the blessings of American citizenship ; let us not be unmindful of the obligations which these blessings impose. Let us not become...
Página 57 - I fear the plutocracy of wealth ; I respect the aristocracy of learning; but I thank God for the democracy of the heart.
Página 17 - Not only do I believe that a man can earn five hundred million, but I believe that men have earned it. I believe that Thomas Jefferson earned more than five hundred millions. The service that he rendered to the world was of such great value that had he collected for it five hundred millions of dollars, he would not have been overpaid. I believe that Abraham Lincoln earned more than five hundred millions, and I could go back through history and give you the name of man after man who rendered a service...
Página 44 - ... and wrong, trying to prove that to be just which he knew to be unjust. He was rather one of those who spend their time in the search of what is right and true, who are determined to follow where the truth leads, and in that determination grow stronger day by day and constantly more valuable to their clients, because the power to discern the truth increases with the honest search for it. In all of those branches of the profession which promote the peace and substantial good of the people in the...
Página 13 - ... labor and understand that it is honorable to serve. And yet there is room for improvement, for all over our land there are, scattered here and there, young men and young women — and even parents — who still think that it is more respectable for a young man to spend in idleness the money some one else has earned than to be himself a producer of wealth.