The Eclectic Teacher and Southwestern Journal of Education: For Teachers and Friends of Education, Volume 2

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Eclectic Teacher Company, 1877 - Education

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Page 165 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best, And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest.
Page 166 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover, and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired.
Page 133 - The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too; Lands he could measure, times and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge, And still
Page 377 - Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise to higher levels rise. The tidal waves of deeper souls, Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares out of all meaner cares, Honor to those whose words or deeds, Thus helps us in our daily needs, And by their overflow raise us from what is low.
Page 331 - the bright and busy eye; Beneath this mouldering canopy, But start not at the dismal void— If social love that eye employed ; If with no lawless fire it gleamed, But through the dews of kindness beamed, That eye shall be forever bright When
Page 207 - The conqueror moves in a march. He stalks onward with the pride, pomp and circumstance of war—banners flying, shouts rending the air, guns thundering and martial music pealing to drown the shrieks of the wounded and the lamentations for the slain. Not thus the schoolmaster in
Page 147 - jurisprudence, and by these he may claim in other countries the elevated rank of a statesman; but unless he speaks, plans, labors at all times and in all places for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.
Page 47 - In all your instructions let your aim be to develop the higher and nobler faculties of the mind and heart. Being yourself taught of him who took little children in his arms and blessed them, let all your intercourse and dealings with your pupils be characterized by a spirit of love for them, and a desire to do them good.
Page 238 - and for the equal benefit of all the people thereof; and no law shall be made authorizing said fund, or any part thereof, to be diverted to any other use than the support and encouragement of common schools.

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