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I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
—Dr. Johnson.
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A clergyman should never come tired before his people, but rather like an engine when it leaves the round-house, oiled, equipped with fuel and water, and with all its strength waiting to be put forth.
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In his last annual report, President Eliot states that the average age of students entering Harvard is eighteen years of age and ten months. He then intimates that if students could be induced to enter college earlier, as they did in Emerson's time, there would be fewer failures.
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When musing on companions gone
We doubly feel ourselves alone.