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... any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have re- sounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . HISTORY . 13.
... any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have re- sounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . HISTORY . 13.
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... sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , be- trays itself in the use we make of the signal narra- tions of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No ...
... sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , be- trays itself in the use we make of the signal narra- tions of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No ...
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... sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective , but perfect in ...
... sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective , but perfect in ...
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... sense , in whom a literal obe- dience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which man is truly man . But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and re- fuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes ...
... sense , in whom a literal obe- dience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which man is truly man . But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and re- fuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes ...
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... sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is ren- dered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judg- ment . Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe to Moses ...
... sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is ren- dered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judg- ment . Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe to Moses ...
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Página 52 - Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Página 52 - 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.
Página 334 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Página 318 - ... the laws of its influx. Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both.
Página 54 - ... 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. There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them 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...
Página 252 - The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
Página 55 - 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.
Página 252 - The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest as " : the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; ithat Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's -particular being is contained and made one with all other...
Página 55 - ... they know what is your duty better than you know it. 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. - x The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
Página 47 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the 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 his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.