Reaching the Children: A Book for Teachers and Parents

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A.S. Barnes Company, 1916 - 127 sider
 

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Side 74 - We live In deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths, In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs — he most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Side 71 - Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
Side 123 - the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit. — Emerson. " It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
Side 18 - LIBRARY A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — Milton. The
Side 74 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
Side 92 - In books and life that is the most wholesome society. Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admired: they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely and worship meanly.
Side 109 - Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."— Samuel Johnson. "The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Side 72 - drives west. With the self same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sails, and not the gales, That determines which way they go. "Like the winds of the
Side 18 - In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. — Channing.
Side 7 - How shall he give kindling in whose own inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder?

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