If I cannot realize my ideal I can at least idealize my realHow?

Where the one had found ideals and incentives, the other found despaira despair that issued in excuses and denied high standards.

He did not aim at ideal majesty so much as at ideal gracefulness; his works were formed from the most beautiful living models, and hence expressed only the ideal of sensuous charms.

To reform the slums is to set up a new ideal of God, and of righteous conduct in the heart of the slum-dwellers.

He had long ago seen that those who are doomed not to realise their ideal, are just those who will not take the first step towards it.

Notwithstanding the destructive criticism of all Moslim princes and state officials by the canonists, it was only from them that they could expect measures to uphold and extend the power of Islâm; and on this account they continually cherished the ideal of the Khalifate.

The children who have no toys seize realities very late, and never form ideals....

Posterity is the world to come, the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibilities.

To present a pure and noble ideal, to breathe forth a holy atmosphere for the soul, are constructive works.

Their name of Normandy still clings to the new home; but all else that was Norse disappeared as the conquerors intermarried with the native Franks and accepted French ideals and spoke the French language.

" Now we ask, does not this satisfy your ideal of food for the youthful mind?

THE STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY FOR SOLDIERS {181} Gentlemen: When I accepted the honour of lecturing here, I took for granted that so select an audience would expect from me not mere amusement, but somewhat of instruction; or, if that be too ambitious a word for me to use, at least some fresh hintif I were able to give oneas to how they should fulfil the ideal of military men in such an age as this.

A clever expression, spoken in jest by I know not whom, has been bandied about the world, and supposed by many to represent some new ideal of the Christian character.

To seek for the approval of others, even though they embody our highest ideals, is truly not the loftiest form of aspiration; but it is one round in the ladder which leads to that higher feeling, the desire for the benediction of the spirit-principle within us.

The chief object in doing this "is to create a constantly advancing ideal toward which the child is attracted, and thereby to gain a constantly increasing effort on his part to realize this ideal."

Not change for change sake, but change to preserve America's ideals: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

I invite Englishmen, who could work out the ideal the believe in, to join the ranks of the non-co-operationists.

No other man I know has ever attained the good old troubadourish ideal of domneithat love which rather abhors than otherwise the notion of possessing its object.

Here is Work exalted to its spiritual office: to carry out, not only ideals of beauty and harmony, but to advance spiritual progress.

The old party lines were violently disrupted, and President Wilson was elected as the leader of a new era seeking new ideals of universal equality.

Because only by adopting that ideal is it possible for Germany's enemies to beat her.

In life men had rebelled against the too strict authority of state and society; in literature they rebelled even more vigorously against the bonds of classicism, which had sternly repressed a writer's ambition to follow his own ideals and to express them in his own way.

" In the family relation so many women are nothing more, so many women become even less, that human conception may perhaps be forgiven for losing sight of the truth, the ideal.

And, meanwhile, the men of her husband's generation clung to their old mansions, and were ornamental, certainly, and were, very certainly, profoundly self-satisfied; for they adhered to the customs of yesterday under the comfortable delusion that this was the only way to uphold yesterday's ideals.

The admission of the Parliament Bill to the statute-book marks an epoch and fills the hearts of those who are pursuing high ideals in politics and sociology with great hopes for the future.