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... highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato , and Milton , is that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across ...
... highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato , and Milton , is that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across ...
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... highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but redeemers and benefactors , pious aspirants to be noble clay plastic under the Almighty effort , let us advance and ...
... highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but redeemers and benefactors , pious aspirants to be noble clay plastic under the Almighty effort , let us advance and ...
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... highest truth on this subject re- mains unsaid ; probably , cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far off remembering of the intuition . That thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you ...
... highest truth on this subject re- mains unsaid ; probably , cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far off remembering of the intuition . That thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you ...
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... highest to its trivial passages is the vari- ous record of this power . Thus all concentrates ; let us not rove ; let us sit at home with the cause . Let us stun and astonish the in- truding rabble of men and books and institutions by a ...
... highest to its trivial passages is the vari- ous record of this power . Thus all concentrates ; let us not rove ; let us sit at home with the cause . Let us stun and astonish the in- truding rabble of men and books and institutions by a ...
Сторінка 63
... highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good . But prayer as a means to ef- fect a private end , is theft and meanness . It sup- poses dualism and not ...
... highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good . But prayer as a means to ef- fect a private end , is theft and meanness . It sup- poses dualism and not ...
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Сторінка 42 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it.
Сторінка 35 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Сторінка 68 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Сторінка 44 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Сторінка 166 - It makes no difference how many friends I have and what content I can find in conversing with each, if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
Сторінка 40 - Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself.
Сторінка 73 - A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Сторінка 11 - Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Сторінка 37 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Сторінка 43 - Then, aguin, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor ? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.