Tufts College Graduate, Volumes 7-8

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Tufts College, 1910
 

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Page 141 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 175 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 78 - And to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom they commit much, of him will they ask the more.
Page 175 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
Page 168 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 169 - Along the cool sequestered vale of life He kept the noiseless tenor of his way.
Page 195 - ... not be scaled. But the walled-town stage has long since passed, and we have now reached a state of development where physical force within each nation is applied only as a police force to restrain the vicious and turbulent. But as between nations the earlier conditions still prevail, and they still act toward each other as barbarians. They are suffering from fear and distrust of each other, almost wholly unwarranted. In fact, each individual nation wishes to be undisturbed in the peaceful development...
Page 50 - When the war drums throb no longer, And the battle flags are furled, In the Parliament of man, The federation of the world.
Page 144 - He received his early education in the public schools of his native town and at Mount Hollis Seminary, Holliston, Mass.
Page 97 - How happy is he born or taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his highest skill...

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