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O Born In Days When Wits Were Fresh And Clear, And Life Ran Gaily As The Sparkling Thames; Before This Strange Disease Of Modern Life, With Its Sick Hurry, Its Divided Aims, Its Heads O'ertax'd, Its Palsied Hearts, Was Rife.

One Thing Only Has Been Lent To Youth And Age In Common--discontent.

Creep Into Thy Narrow Bed, Creep, And Let No More Be Said!

One Must, I Think, Be Struck More And More The Longer One Lives, To Find How Much In Our Present Society A Man's Life Of Each Day Depends For Its Solidity And Value Upon Whether He Reads During That Day, And Far More Still On What He Reads During It.

The Uppermost Idea With Hellenism Is To See Things As They Really Are; The Uppermost Ideas With Hebraism Is Conduct And Obedience.nothing Can Do Away With This Ineffaceable Difference. The Greek Quarrel With The Body And Its Desires Is, That They Hinder Right Thinking; The Hebrew Quarrel With Them Is, That They Hinder Right Acting.