Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have done. I ought to have taken my seat long ago. I am conscious of the infirmities of age, of health, of voice, which incapacitate of justice either to myself or to the occasion, and I am more than conscious that there are distinguished guests here from other colleges and from other climes who have a right to be heard, and that I enjoyed my right fifty years ago. Let me only in taking my seat, give honor to my alma mater on this birthday of hers in the presence of all her assembled sons, my heartfelt hopes and wishes...
...article of faith must feel the creed around it. Each class in the community must live in the larger life of the community which is above all classes and embraces all. Each notion must be a part of the federation of the world. Each age in history must be conscious of all human history in whose embrace it is held, and of the vast eternity in which all the history of this world is all the time living, as a cloud swims in the limitless sky. The christian in the church, the citizen in the State, the institution...
...profuse about it the longer that it goes on building its little corner or laying its bit of the foundation of the great structure. Each has missed the best result of living, which in that life enlarges itself by its own healthy action - Solvitur ambulando - and grows more conscious and more receptive of the true element of its existence, the larger and more fully it does its work...
...fellow is broadened at all by coming to college, he will soon become conscious of the confusing complexity and many-sidedness of life and its occupations. He will find himself surrounded by such a mass of things which by some desire he is impelled to do, that the truth is soon forced upon him that he cannot hope to accomplish them all, but must pick and choose, and be content with the accomplishment of the most important of them. This is apropos of the choice of electives. The same principle is at work in both cases. We find ourselves placed...
...other hand, to dilute and dampen the service until it loses the impress of every belief and of every tradition, so that it may offend no prejudices, is a sure way of making it a mockery; the studied reserve, the conscious insufficiency of such a service is too notorious to be pointed out. In our day, to make a religion fit for all, is to make one fit for nobody. The prayers, then, should feed the craving for worship which some yet feel; they should have a meaning. But since they cannot possibly have one meaning for all, let only...