In a little bit I'm off to Manhattan to pick something up. I thought I would stop by the Met, but when I found out the admission price, my inner cheapskate balked. Then I thought I would stop by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, but that's up near 110th Street, and I'm going to lower Manhattan, near where the old World Trade Center used to be. I'll have to make a decision here before I leave. I will probably end up just going and coming straight back. I need to focus on working and studying, in any case.
Here's Grenville Kleiser for April 13th. The bold type is in the original:
A profound duty devolves upon you to develop daily and assiduously in your own life the qualities of sympathy, sincerity, and sacrifice. Thus you may contribute your share to the world's improvement and advancement. The world should grow steadily better, wiser, and nobler, and it will do this in the degree that individual men cultivate these virtues in themselves. Do not wait for other men to take the first steps in self-improvement, but look earnestly to your own needs and resolve to set a high personal example which other men will see and wish to emulate. The world grows better because of the men who are consecrated to high thinking and noble deeds. Your rightful place is with such men.
devolve: to pass responsibility from a person or people with a higher level of authority to a person or people with a lower level of authority.
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