It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successivel...y, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; Mbut when a beginning is made--when felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt--it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means succes...sively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, ...the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are; Hermes, Cadmus, Columbus, Newton, Bonaparte, are the mind's ministers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the imag...es offered by those changing shores.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vices may be said to await us along the course of our lives like hosts with whom we lodge successively on a journey; and I doubt t...hat experience would cause us to avoid them, if we could travel the same road twice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometim...es admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smarter ...salons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul; ...but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That age will be rich indeed when those relics which we call Classics, and the still older and more than classic but even less kno...wn Scriptures of the nations, shall have still further accumulated, when the Vaticans shall be filled with Vedas and Zendavestas and Bibles, with Homers and Dantes and Shakespeares, and all the centuries to come shall have successively deposited their trophies in the forum of the world. By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »