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Сторінка 14
... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better ...
... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better ...
Сторінка 30
... is but a name for you and me . Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls that too is no fable . I would it were 30 ESSAY I.
... is but a name for you and me . Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls that too is no fable . I would it were 30 ESSAY I.
Сторінка 40
... babes , and even brutes . That divided and rebel mind , that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose , these have not . The mind being whole , their eye is 40 ESSAY II .
... babes , and even brutes . That divided and rebel mind , that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose , these have not . The mind being whole , their eye is 40 ESSAY II .
Сторінка 45
... mean as my gifts may be , I actuallly am , and do not need for my own assur- ance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous ...
... mean as my gifts may be , I actuallly am , and do not need for my own assur- ance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous ...
Сторінка 46
... mean , " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurping ...
... mean , " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurping ...
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Сторінка 45 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Сторінка 38 - 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 40 - A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events.
Сторінка 42 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil.
Сторінка 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Сторінка 67 - 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 195 - ... counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love.
Сторінка 45 - 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.
Сторінка 138 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
Сторінка 90 - Some damning circumstance always transpires. The laws and substances of nature water, snow, wind, gravitation - become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.