Out Into Life: A Handbook for Young Men Facing the Choice of a Vocation and the Adventure of Living,Abingdon Press, 1924 - 284 sider |
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Side 283 - I go to prove my soul ! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive ! what time, what circuit first, I ask not : but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive : He guides me and the bird. In his good time ! Mich.
Side 283 - But the skies are black; There is nothing but noise and din.' And he wept as He sent me back: 'There is more,' He said, 'there is sin.' "I said, 'But the air is thick And fogs are veiling the sun.' He answered, 'Yet souls are sick And souls in the dark undone.
Side 12 - How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Side 119 - In the elder days of Art, Builders -wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods see everywhere.
Side 136 - Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of the masses, and inversely as the square of the distance from each other.
Side 141 - Effectiveness of assertion is the Alpha and Omega of style. He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him. Disprove his assertion after it is made, yet its style remains.
Side 282 - There is more," He said, "there is sin." I said, "But the air is thick, And fogs are veiling the sun." He answered, "Yet souls are sick, And souls in the dark undone.
Side 273 - The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibres of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations. This is what gives such inestimable value to instruments that have belonged to great masters. Water, in flowing, hollows out for itself a channel, which grows broader and deeper; and, after having ceased to flow, it resumes, when it flows again, the path traced by itself before. Just so, the impressions of outer objects fashion...
Side 269 - If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible : Are you able to save money ? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.
Side 78 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. [The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the...