Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all ...that you undertake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because... he knows others worthy of consideration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then, since that I may know, As liberally as to a midwife, show... Thyself: cast all, yea, this white linen hence, Here is no penance, much less innocence. To teach thee, I am naked first; why than, What needst thou have more covering than a man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's eco...nomy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is an optician, daily having to do with the microscope, telescope, and other inventions for sharpening our natural sight, thus ...enabling us mortals (as I once heard an eccentric put it) liberally to enlarge the field of our original and essential ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a re...asonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; whil...e the learning of trades and professions by which to get your livelihood merely was considered worthy of slaves only. But taking a hint from the word, I would go a step further, and say that it is not the man of wealth and leisure simply, though devoted to art, or science, or literature, who, in a true sense, is liberally educated, but only the earnest and free man. In a slaveholding country like this, there can be no such thing as a liberal education tolerated by the State; and those scholars of Austria and France who, however learned they may be, are contented under their tyrannies have received only a servile education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this t...own, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell. Even the college-bred and so-called liberally educated men here and elsewhere have really little or no acquaintance with the English classics; and as for the recorded wisdom of mankind, the ancient classics and Bibles, which are accessible to all who will know of them, there are the feeblest efforts anywhere made to become acquainted with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »