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We only discuss that to which we have not attained, and the virtues we talk most of are those beyond us. The ideal outstrips the actual. But it is no discredit that a man pictures more than he realizes such a one is preparing the way for others. Marcus Antoninus has been a guiding star an inspiration to untold millions. Marcus Aurelius was forty years old when he became Emperor of Rome.
The future holds much for you of success, the later portion of this and the whole of the next will be filled with prosperity you have a band of the more advanced spirits about you and were you to follow your first impressions you would never fail in your judgment a man of few words when in the body I still have the same peculiarities will with your permission become one of your guiding band
And his reward was that he soon became, by universal consent, the greatest practical preacher in broad Scotland. He could not touch Rutherford, his old professor, at pure theology; he had neither Rutherford's learning, nor his ecstatic eloquence, nor his surpassing love of Jesus Christ, but for handling broken bones and guiding an anxious inquirer no one could hold the candle to William Guthrie.
He bent suddenly towards her. "Drink some wine, chérie! You are pale." She started a little at the quick peremptoriness of his speech. She lifted her glass to drink, and splashed some of the wine over. He leaned farther forward, screening her from observation. "Go on! Drink!" he said, with insistence, and in a moment his hand closed upon hers, guiding the wine to her lips.
Bring some one who can carry him to his room. And stay, Eulalie, sit down there and be quiet. Don't let any one go and alarm Elizabeth." She gave these orders and everybody listened and obeyed; people are so ready to obey any guiding spirit at such a crisis.
The broad rules guiding conduct are few and little more than those which must be exercised in any well-organized family. But there is the unspoken etiquette made chiefly by the students themselves, which fills the place like an atmosphere, and which can only be transgressed at the risk of surly glances and muttered comments and even words of derision.
King John of France was there armed, and twenty other in his apparel; and he did put the guiding of his eldest son to the lord of Saint-Venant, the lord of Landas and the lord Thibault of Vaudenay; and the lord Arnold of Cervolles, called the archpriest, was armed in the armour of the young earl of Alençon.
The young chief, still on horseback, was seen spurring out from the midst of his men, and guiding his war-steed in the direction taken by the huntress. Before I could lay hands upon my bridle, he had galloped up to Marian, and falling into a gentler pace, rode on by her side. I did not attempt to follow them.
In "The Portrait," which is partly written in the minute manner of Balzac, and partly with the imaginative fantastic horror of Poe and Hoffmann, we have the two sides of Gogol's nature clearly reflected. Into this strange story he has also indicated two of the great guiding principles of his life: his intense democratic sympathies, and his devotion to the highest ideals in Art.
This is what one day I will be doing to some purpose." His mind went out to that day when he would be guiding his own machine on a hostile errand, over the enemy's country, perhaps.
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