Texas School Journal, Volume 6

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Texas Educational Journal Publishing Company, 1888 - Education
 

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Page 47 - up of the hours of accountability, and these are here and now. Wait not for Time to come. Time has come; he is with us. Dream not that Time will give anything. Rather give thy gifts to Time. Time is the custodian of thy deeds. " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be
Page 47 - Or standing long, an oak three hundred year, To fall, a log at last, dry, old and sere. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall
Page 156 - by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
Page 196 - We are students of words ; we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag .of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our
Page 47 - It was the plant and flower of light In small proportions we just beauty see, And, in short measure, life may perfect be.
Page 267 - Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again. Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to
Page 157 - they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much. . . . I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit of pride and delight in
Page 276 - ' whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience.
Page 299 - —we might as well have hindered the sun's setting; but since it is down, my friend, and it may be long ere it rises again, let us make as good a night of it

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