The Atlantic Year Book: Being a Collection of Quotations from the Atlantic Monthly

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Atlantic monthly Press, 1920 - 113 pages
 

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Page 27 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea.
Page 68 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 20 - In the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as "fail," but the dictionary makes up for this deficiency.
Page 17 - There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise : Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold ; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Page 77 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Page 20 - New-trimmed in Heaven, nor than his steadfast mood More steadfast, far from rashness as from fear ; Rigid, but with himself first, grasping still In swerveless poise the wave-beat helm of will ; Not honored then or now because he wooed The popular voice, but that he still withstood ; Broad-minded, higher-souled, there is but one Who was all this and ours, and all men's, — WASHINGTON.
Page 108 - When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers.
Page 42 - But we found that the frontiers were not this way any longer. This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us. We cannot now have the pleasure of erecting the last house; that was long ago set up in the suburbs of Astoria City, and our boundaries have literally been run to the South Sea, according to the old patents.
Page 81 - The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. That day I must always remember, even if I live to be so old that I cannot tell my name. To most people their first day at school is a memorable occasion. In my case the importance of the day was a hundred times magnified, on account of the years I had waited, the road I had come, and the conscious...
Page 65 - ... miss we know not, but for my part, considering the number I have met, I think it may be many. I have missed certain domestic good fortunes, such as a family of many children (I have only one), which might have made the struggle of life harder, but which would surely have brought its compensations. Those lives are, indeed, narrow and confined which are not blessed with several children. Every branch the tree puts out lays it open more to the storms and tempests of life; it lays it open also to...

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