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...little cottage which commanded a pretty landscape. "You have a charming view here," said I. "Yes," he answered, "I take a great deal of pleasure in it though I cannot see it. I have long ago lost my sight, but I love to sit here and recall it, and think that it is all there." It lies in our own choice with what pictures we may fill our minds, whether our inward eye shall command noble prospects over the whole domain of human thoughts, or shall be bounded by the narrow alley of a merely utilitarian training...
...steep itself in a noble and victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against darker days. It is the books which heighten and clarify the character, whose seciety I would bid you seek. I think they tend to keep us pure. They disinfect the imagination; they fill the memory with light and fragrance. Whatever a man's station, whatever his other opportunities, there is one Company from which he can never be excluded, and it is that of the master-spirits of all the centuries. When...
...will not say with the Emperor Charles V. that a man is as many men as he knows languages, and still less with Lord Burleigh that such polyglottism is but "to have one meat served in divers dishes." But I think that to know the literature of another language, whether dead or living matters not, gives us the prime benefits of foreign travel. It relieves us from what Richard Lassels aptly calls a "moral Excommunication;" it greatly widens the mind's range of view, and therefore of comparison, thus strengthening the judicial faculty; and it teaches us to consider...
...notable feature of the Yale crew is their over-confidence, from "Bob" Cook down to the coxswain. They think there can be but one result to the race and that favorable to Yale. It may be that this over-confidence may act strongly to Harvard's advantage. The present week's work and its day-to-day improvement or deterioration will tell the story by next Monday...
...connected with him. This seems to us to be quite different from saying that a student, if he treats men in the University well, may do what he wills to outsiders. He is under obligation to respect the rights of all, but we are free to say that we think that his obligation becomes greater, the closer he is connected with others. Certainly this principle is recognized everywhere, and all feel instinctively that they have an obligation of a different kind toward members of the University than toward outsiders. To say that one thing is to be recognized as worse...