The Conduct of LifeTicknor and Fields, 1863 - 288 páginas |
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Página 210 - There will be a new church founded on moral science, at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematics of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shawms or psaltery or sackbut; but it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters ; science for symbol and illustration; it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
Página 170 - There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Página 42 - Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity, which makes man brave in believing that he cannot shun a danger that is appointed, nor incur one that is not ; to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates him to the perception that there are no contingencies; that Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but intelligence, — not personal nor impersonal, — it disdains words and passes understanding ; it dissolves persons ; it vivifies nature ; yet solicits the pure in heart to...
Página 2 - If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.
Página 40 - A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse, or plant one foot on the back of one and the other foot on the back of the other.
Página 233 - BORROWING. FROM THE FRENCH. SOME of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
Página 148 - The nobility cannot in any country be disguised, and no more in a republic or a democracy than in a kingdom. No man can resist their influence. There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius. Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them,...
Página 121 - Let us make our education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late. The evil is done, the law is passed, and we begin the up-hill agitation for repeal of that of which we ought to have prevented the enacting. We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root and branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in Education.
Página 21 - The day of days, the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things, to the omnipresence of law — sees that what is must be, and ought to be, or is the best.
Página 78 - ... is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished, as if virtue were coming to be a luxury which few could afford, or, as Burke said, "at a market almost too high for humanity.