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Page xii - This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.
Page xii - For, don't you mark? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that ; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Page 234 - We differ from other states in regarding the man who holds aloof from public life not as 'quiet' but as useless; we decide or debate, carefully and in person, all matters of policy, holding, not that words and deeds go ill together, but that acts are foredoomed to failure when undertaken undiscussed.
Page 229 - ... been done in the past, and can be done in the future...
Page 237 - On the eighth day of July in the year 1401 the Dean and Chapter of Seville assembled in the court of the elms and solemnly resolved: 'Let us build a church so great that those who come after us may think us mad to have attempted it ! ' . . . The church took one hundred and fifty years to build.
Page 237 - July in the year 1922, solemnly resolving: "We will remake of London a city so beautiful and sweet to dwell in that those who come after us shall think us mad to have attempted it.
Page 34 - Under the Addison grant the local authority was divested of every shred of financial responsibility for good management; the most efficient and the most extravagant local authorities would each pay exactly the product of a penny rate, neither more nor less. All costs due to mistakes and inefficiency were to be borne by the Government.
Page 234 - Such then is the city for whom, lest they should lose her, the men whom we celebrate died a soldier's death: and it is but natural that all of us, who survive them, should wish to spend ourselves in her service.
Page 234 - That, indeed, is why I have spent many words upon the city. I wished to show that we have more at stake than men who have no such inheritance, and to support my praise of the dead by making clear to you what they have done.
Page vii - for the average English citizen the possibility of health, of happiness, of progress towards the old Greek ideal of 'beautiful goodness,' depends on his local government more than on any other factor in his environment" makes us realize that the city council's accomplishments are important.