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Page 21 - Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome and fat and well dressed, and a great athlete, and make a million a year, be a wit, a bon-vivant, and a ladykiller, as well as a philosopher; a philanthropist, statesman, warrior, and African explorer, as well as a "tone-poet
Page 21 - ... and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher; a philanthropist, statesman, warrior, and African explorer, as well as a ' tone-poet ' and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint's; the...
Page 9 - His butcher, his newsboy, his servant, — are they not for him industrious or lazy, honest or deceitful, polite or uncivil, useful or useless people, rather than selfconscious people ? Is any one of these alive for him in the full sense, — sentient, emotional, and otherwise like himself ; as perhaps his own son, or his own mother or wife seems to him to be ? Is it not rather the kind of behavior of these beings towards him which he realizes ? Is it not rather in general their being for him, not...
Page 28 - But that is a judgment which the individual, who alone knows the facts from the inside, must be left to pass upon himself. We who stand on the outside cannot get at the inner facts, and so have no right to pass such a judgment. At all events, the young man who would attune his life to the highest wisdom, and control it by the firmest temperance, will not permit himself to form the habit before he has attained his full physical and mental stature, and has proved his ability with his own hand or brain...
Page 25 - Whatever the final verdict of physiology may be (and that is not yet rendered), so long as these people believe on the testimony of expert authorities whose judgment they trust, and on their own experience so far as they are competent to interpret it, that moderation in the use of alcoholic drink is good for them, they are wise and temperate in its use. For morality is not a matter of right or wrong opinion about physiological or social questions.
Page 3 - ... or the friend whom he loves. The man who does these things is accepted as a thoroughly good fellow, a gentleman ; he has all the virtues which are absolutely required to get...
Page 3 - ... of a college code — that is, for healthy, wealthy young fellows who have no immediate concern about earning their living, and who are free from domestic, business, and political responsibilities — these college codes serve fairly well. In substance, they all agree that a man shall be wide awake and tactful, genial and courteous, kindly in his comments on others, cheerful when things don't quite suit him, generous in small things as well as...
Page 19 - There is no dignity in a life that is as perpetually behind its appointments as a tail is in the rear of a dog. It is very risky — ethically speaking, it is cowardly — to draw the line at the exact date when the work is due ; for then one is at the mercy of any accident...
Page 19 - ... as a tail is in the rear of a dog. It is very risky — ethically speaking, it is cowardly — to draw the line at the exact date when the work is due ; for then one is at the mercy of any accident or interruption that may overtake him at the end of his allotted time.
Page 29 - No man can amount to much without constant practice of stern self-denial and rigid self-control.