 He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4321840Full view - About this book
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1858 - 180 pages
...supreme ordinance of a parental guardian, and legislator, who knows, better than we know ourselves. He that wrestles 'with us strengthens our nerves and...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to... | |
 | Business - 1859 - 188 pages
...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and...relations; it will not suffer us to be superficial." Those who are too apt to quake and quail before every difficulty, would do well to learn the song of... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1859 - 368 pages
...parental guardian and instructor, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill: our antagonist is thus our helper." Without the necessity of encountering difficulty, life might be easier, but men would... | |
 | 1860 - 908 pages
...parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better tha« we know ourselves, and he lores us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our subjeet, and compels us to... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1860 - 192 pages
...helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our subject, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." This is the student's work. It admits of no substitute. No costly library, no hoarded treasure of literary... | |
 | 1861 - 214 pages
...parental guardian and instructor, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as Ho loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill : our antagonist is thus our helper." THE BATTLE OF LIFE AN UP-HILL STRUGGLE. The battle of life, in by far the greater... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves ; and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintanee with our object, and compels us to... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1863 - 312 pages
...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves ; and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with Difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to... | |
 | 1863 - 910 pages
...guardian and legislator, who knows us better than wo know ourselves; and He loves us better too. Ho that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider... | |
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