New Outlook, Volumen8

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New Century Foundation, 1955 - 17 páginas
 

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Página 8 - No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. . . . We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. . . . We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. —Abraham Lincoln,
Página 92 - the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.
Página 5 - THE DOGMAS of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so must we think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves. —Abraham Lincoln
Página 33 - ennobles human nature. Alas is it rendered impossible by its vices? ". . . In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be
Página 78 - who wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 70 - grim reminder of how great the gap has been between our pledge and our performance, between debate and deed; of how far short we have fallen of our avowal to "practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors." It is altogether fitting—as we celebrate, with solemnity and satisfaction, the signing of our Charter of
Página 53 - Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. —Abraham Lincoln
Página 84 - A MAN SHOULD LEARN to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Página 22 - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and. at no distant period, a great nation, to give mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 71 - TRUE WORTH is in BEING, not SEEMING; In doing, each day that goes by. Some little good—not in dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.

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