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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Benjamin Jowett

All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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Compromise Effort Language
Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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Bears Classical Plato Play
I am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
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Future Past Peace Want
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
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Educational May Men
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
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Life Men Mistake Young
It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.
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Affection Divine Electricity Energy Human Kind Shore
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
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Character Lying Truth
If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
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Afternoon College Scary
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
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Achievement Experience Science
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.
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Air Man Men Oxford Probably Single
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
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Believe Children Dear God
We can’t search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.
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Action Distinctive Justice Kindness
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
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Said Successful Unnecessary
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
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Beautiful Life Work
Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty.
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Energy Grace Real
It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
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Important Pushing World

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

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