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Page 49 - ... else. He must do it himself or it is never done. The learner must do his own learning, and this granted, it follows naturally that the less he is interfered with by arbitrary restraint and vexatious, unnecessary rules, the more quickly, easily and spontaneously he will learn.
Page 194 - THE LAST WISH SINCE all that I can ever do for thee Is to do nothing, this my prayer must be : That thou mayst never guess nor ever see The all-endured this nothing-done costs me.
Page 133 - ... without feeling the general effects of it in the form of moral inferiority. We often believe ourselves to be independent simply because no one commands us, and because we command others; but the nobleman who needs to call a servant to his aid is really a dependent through his own inferiority. The paralytic who cannot take off his boots because of a pathological fact, and the prince who dare not take them off because of a social fact, are in reality reduced to the same condition.
Page 156 - ... barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state,— tends to true union as well as greatness. "I learned...
Page 108 - tain't nothin" to him whether shirtwaists are smooth or wrinkled, so he couldn't have taken no satisfaction in bein' mischievous. Seem's though he was wantin" to fold up things, without really sensin' what he was doin' it with. He's seen me fold things up. There's other things than shirtwaists he could fold, that wouldn't do no harm for him to fuss with." And I set the iron down and took a dish towel out'n the basket and says to him, where he set cryin', "Here, Buddy, here's somethin
Page 10 - I noticed it for the first time, there seemed no one there to push the children or to refrain from doing it. That collection of little tots, most of them too busy over their mysterious occupations even to talk, seemed, as far as a casual glance over the room went, entirely without supervision. Finally, from a corner, where she had been sitting (on the floor apparently) beside a child, there rose up a...