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... sleep for long periods in order that he may hold his mind steadily to a given task . Mary Lyon , the founder of Mount Holyoke College , when at last she was able to enter an academy , " paid for her board with two coverlets , spun ...
... sleep for long periods in order that he may hold his mind steadily to a given task . Mary Lyon , the founder of Mount Holyoke College , when at last she was able to enter an academy , " paid for her board with two coverlets , spun ...
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... Sleep and ex- ercise are the best means of working this change in the tired brain . And , always , much fresh air is required for this renewal . The mind is freshest and best fitted for hard work in the morning ; so the severest tasks ...
... Sleep and ex- ercise are the best means of working this change in the tired brain . And , always , much fresh air is required for this renewal . The mind is freshest and best fitted for hard work in the morning ; so the severest tasks ...
Page 65
... Bellario , Philaster says : · " Oh , but thou dost not know what ' tis to die . Yes , I do , my lord . Bellario . " Tis less than to be born , a lasting sleep . A quiet resting from all jealousy , A thing we To Schoolgirls at Graduation 65.
... Bellario , Philaster says : · " Oh , but thou dost not know what ' tis to die . Yes , I do , my lord . Bellario . " Tis less than to be born , a lasting sleep . A quiet resting from all jealousy , A thing we To Schoolgirls at Graduation 65.
Page 96
... sleep in the morning . He would mock at her weakness if she failed to keep faith with him , or at her discomfiture if she fortified her resolu- tion and hung on . Either way she would squirm horribly . Being tied to mother's apron ...
... sleep in the morning . He would mock at her weakness if she failed to keep faith with him , or at her discomfiture if she fortified her resolu- tion and hung on . Either way she would squirm horribly . Being tied to mother's apron ...
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... sleep or overtax her strength . Someone has re- marked that " there is a great difference between students who must earn every cent before they spend it and those whose college dollars come to them at fitting intervals like food to ...
... sleep or overtax her strength . Someone has re- marked that " there is a great difference between students who must earn every cent before they spend it and those whose college dollars come to them at fitting intervals like food to ...
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Page 38 - I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.
Page 129 - A third maxim may be added to the preceding pair: Seize the first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new "set
Page 38 - God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 25 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 68 - So was he lifted gently from the ground, And with their freight homeward the shepherds moved Through the dull mist, I following — when a step, A single step, that freed me from the skirts Of the blind vapour, opened to my view Glory beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul...
Page 48 - One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
Page 67 - From all that's fair, from all that's foul, Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something sings.
Page 131 - Let the expression be the least thing in the world— speaking genially to one's aunt, or giving up one's seat in a horse-car, if nothing more heroic offers — but let it not fail to take place.
Page 37 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 73 - On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose Of common sense, And out it goes At small expense.