John Henry Ives

Advice on scholarship from Reed College "The test of true scholarship is a painstaking passion for detail." - Chemistry Professor. "be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective on the whole." - History Professor.

"When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." - King Lear (Shakespeare).

"the mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine." - Frederick Von Logau (translated by Longfellow in the poem "Retribution").

"To see the failings of our friends and think hard of them, without opening that which we ought to open, and still carry a face of friendship, tends to undermine the foundation of true unity." - John Woolman.

"Veiled in My immemorial being and in the ancient eternity of My essence, I knew My love for thee; therefore I created thee, have engraved on thee Mine image and revealed to thee My beauty. " - Baha'u'llah.

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