Twelve EssaysG. Slater, 1849 - 261 стор. |
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Сторінка 40
... 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 connection of events . Great men have always done so , and confided ...
... 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 connection of events . Great men have always done so , and confided ...
Сторінка 43
... hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation ...
... hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation ...
Сторінка 50
... hope in these days we have heard the last of con- formity and consistency . Let the words be gazetted , and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife . Let us bow and ...
... hope in these days we have heard the last of con- formity and consistency . Let the words be gazetted , and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife . Let us bow and ...
Сторінка 56
... hope are alike beneath it . It asks nothing . There is somewhat low even in hope . We are then in vision . There is nothing that can be called gratitude nor pro- perly joy . The soul is raised over passion . It seeth identity and ...
... hope are alike beneath it . It asks nothing . There is somewhat low even in hope . We are then in vision . There is nothing that can be called gratitude nor pro- perly joy . The soul is raised over passion . It seeth identity and ...
Сторінка 66
... hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows . He who travels to be amused , or to get somewhat which he does not carry , travels away from himself , and grows old even in youth among old things . In Thebes , in Palmyra , his will and ...
... hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows . He who travels to be amused , or to get somewhat which he does not carry , travels away from himself , and grows old even in youth among old things . In Thebes , in Palmyra , his will and ...
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Сторінка 43 - 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 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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 51 - Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. 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...
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 63 - Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason.
Сторінка 38 - 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. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
Сторінка 138 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
Сторінка 92 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Сторінка 69 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.