Child Culture in the Home: A Book for MothersF. H. Revell Company, 1898 - 240 Seiten |
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... hand to hand . " Having seen the egotism of sensuality and of intellect , who would not know the happiness resulting from goodness . Do not look down on the child's simplest acts of generosity , -it is these which lead the soul to self ...
... hand to hand . " Having seen the egotism of sensuality and of intellect , who would not know the happiness resulting from goodness . Do not look down on the child's simplest acts of generosity , -it is these which lead the soul to self ...
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... hand- maidens of the conscience , else it may prove a curse instead of a blessing . Some of the blackest crimes that history records , the most cruel exactions , have been perpetrated by men of misdirected consciences . One cannot say ...
... hand- maidens of the conscience , else it may prove a curse instead of a blessing . Some of the blackest crimes that history records , the most cruel exactions , have been perpetrated by men of misdirected consciences . One cannot say ...
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... hand in hand with conscience , and constitute its safeguards . A child who has known the pleasure of a re- lieved and approving conscience , even at great personal inconvenience , will not be reluctant to renew the experience . While in ...
... hand in hand with conscience , and constitute its safeguards . A child who has known the pleasure of a re- lieved and approving conscience , even at great personal inconvenience , will not be reluctant to renew the experience . While in ...
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... hand , a series of most disastrous scenes follow the irregularity which sometimes cedes , sometimes refuses , the same article . By being consistent , the mother not only commands submission at the time , but also a 60 THE TRAINING OF ...
... hand , a series of most disastrous scenes follow the irregularity which sometimes cedes , sometimes refuses , the same article . By being consistent , the mother not only commands submission at the time , but also a 60 THE TRAINING OF ...
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... hand , and will remain ignorant forevermore . But if you are active and earnest if you wish to succeed in life - if you covet the title of rational beings - if you have the sense to appreciate good advice and the resolution to carry it ...
... hand , and will remain ignorant forevermore . But if you are active and earnest if you wish to succeed in life - if you covet the title of rational beings - if you have the sense to appreciate good advice and the resolution to carry it ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 105 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Seite 104 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
Seite 124 - When a resolve or a fine glow of feeling is allowed to evaporate without bearing practical fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
Seite 156 - ... sun in his whole day's circuit. The poet's visions of evening are all compact of tender and soothing images. It brings the wanderer to his home, the child to his mother's arms, the ox to his stall, and the weary laborer to his rest. But to the gentle-hearted youth who is thrown upon the rocks of a pitiless city, and stands, " homeless amid a thousand homes...
Seite 182 - If an act became no easier after being done several times, if the careful direction of consciousness were necessary to its accomplishment on each occasion, it is evident that the whole activity of a lifetime might be confined to one or two deeds — that no progress could take place in development.
Seite 102 - Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
Seite 123 - No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved. And this is an obvious consequence of the principles we have laid down. "A character...
Seite 185 - ... your resolution with every aid you know. This will give your new beginning such a momentum that the temptation to break down will not occur as soon as it otherwise might ; and every day during which a breakdown is postponed adds to the chances of its not occurring at alL...
Seite 185 - Habits" there are some admirable practical remarks laid down. Two great maxims emerge from his treatment. The first is that in the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.
Seite 185 - It is necessary, above all things, in such a situation, never to lose a battle. Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right. The essential precaution, therefore, is so to regulate the two opposing powers that the one may have a series of uninterrupted successes, until repetition has fortified it to such a degree as to enable it to cope with the opposition, under any circumstances. This is the theoretically best career of mental progress.