Essays. 1901Macmillan and Company, 1901 |
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... must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia 6 [ ESSAY ESSAYS .
... must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia 6 [ ESSAY ESSAYS .
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... secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts ...
... secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts ...
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... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of ...
... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of ...
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... secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preter- natural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the ...
... secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preter- natural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the ...
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... secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide him all tongues greet , all honours crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him and ...
... secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide him all tongues greet , all honours crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him and ...
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action Æsop animal appear beauty behold better Bonduca Cæsar Calvinistic character chivalry church conversation dæmon divine earth Epaminondas ESSAY eternal experience F. W. H. MYERS fact fancy fear feel flower force friendship genius gifts give hand heart heaven Heraclitus honour hour human individual intel intellect labour light live look man's manner marriage mind moral Napoleon nature never numbers object ourselves OVER-SOUL painted Parliament of Love party pass perception perfect persons Phidias Phocion phrenology Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry politics present Proclus prudence relations religion rich secret seems sense sentiment society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars sweet symbol talent thee things thou thought tion true truth universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise wonderful words Xenophon Zoroaster
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Сторінка 42 - Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines. I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me.
Сторінка 280 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth, lie in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat.
Сторінка 47 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Сторінка 47 - Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Сторінка 43 - I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.
Сторінка 260 - But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false.
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 253 - Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet...
Сторінка 52 - We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Сторінка 50 - An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.