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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations.
Then was a tryin' time for me. I would not lie, neither would I brook one word against my companion, even from myself. So I says, "He is a man that has traits and qualities, and sights of 'em." But thinkin' that I must do so, if I got true information of dangers, I went on, and told of Josiah's political aims, which I considered dangerous to himself and the nation.
Unfortunately, there are a great many people the basis of whose character consists of a washy confidence in the good intentions of everybody. Most mistakenly they call it Christianity. Here, then, has been outlined the effect of the Allies' declared aims.
We have we and the British common aims and character. Only a continuous and sincere courtesy over periods of strain as well as of calm is necessary for as complete an understanding as will be required for the automatic guidance of the world in peaceful ways.
He's a fellow who will want his wife to be a companion, a real comrade, able to go forward side by side with him, understand his aims, sympathize with his ideals and so on; and this girl can't do it." "But why are you so sure she can't, my boy? Probably she is very different when alone with her husband.
In actual life, we want things done, not preparations for doing them; and we naturally prefer the man who has definite aims and purposes, and proceeds in the straightest and shortest way to accomplish his object, to the one who describes the thing to be done, and spins fine phrases about doing it. Without action, words are mere maundering.
On the other side there is a blend of two quite different aims: first, the desire to promote revolution in the Western nations, which is in line with Communist theory, and is also thought to be the only way of obtaining a really secure peace; secondly, the desire for Asiatic dominion, which is probably accompanied in the minds of some with dreams of sapphires and rubies and golden thrones and all the glories of their forefather Solomon.
And now Levi sought and found the thin, blue-veined hands folded peacefully upon the white coverlid. "Sandy found the starved mother and father in us, Matilda. His need met ours, and God blessed us all." "That's a true word, brother. You and I were real pinched in our aims and longings in the offset.
This spirit, linked to the Greeks by the noblest ties, and shown by its past history to have been steadfast and courageous, pure and lofty in its aims, its faculties qualifying it for the high task of freeing modern man from the curse of modernity this spirit is condemned to live apart, banished from its inheritance.
No Magyar politicians will ever abandon the programme of the territorial integrity of Hungary, their aims being expressed in the words of Koloman Tisza: "For the sake of the future of the Magyar State it is necessary for Hungary to become a state where only Magyar is spoken. To gain the Slovaks or to come to a compromise with them is out of the question.
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