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Página 195
We have the nimblest fancy, a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken
leave for the time. For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful,
rich communications, drawn from the oldest, secretest experience, so that they
who sit ...
We have the nimblest fancy, a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken
leave for the time. For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful,
rich communications, drawn from the oldest, secretest experience, so that they
who sit ...
Página 209
In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as
takes place when you leave them alone. In good company the individuals at once
merge their egotism into a social soul exactly coextensive with the several ...
In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as
takes place when you leave them alone. In good company the individuals at once
merge their egotism into a social soul exactly coextensive with the several ...
Página 248
No, I will take no leave. My Dorigen, Yonder above, 'bout Ariadne's crown, My
spirit shall hover for thee. Prithee, haste. Dor. Stay, Sophocles, with this tie up my
sight; Let not soft nature so transformed be, And lose her gentler-sexed humanity,
...
No, I will take no leave. My Dorigen, Yonder above, 'bout Ariadne's crown, My
spirit shall hover for thee. Prithee, haste. Dor. Stay, Sophocles, with this tie up my
sight; Let not soft nature so transformed be, And lose her gentler-sexed humanity,
...
Página 294
They leave them wiser and superior men. Souls like these make us feel that
sincerity is more excellent than flattery. Deal so plainly with man and woman, as
to constrain the utmost sincerity, and destroy all hope of trifling with you. It is the ...
They leave them wiser and superior men. Souls like these make us feel that
sincerity is more excellent than flattery. Deal so plainly with man and woman, as
to constrain the utmost sincerity, and destroy all hope of trifling with you. It is the ...
Página 345
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and
universal. Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of
whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence, but it at last gives place
to a ...
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and
universal. Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of
whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence, but it at last gives place
to a ...
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Página 43 - 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.
Página 54 - 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.
Página 86 - 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.
Página 57 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Página 63 - Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work; but the things of life are the same to both; the sum total of both is the same. Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue? As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed their public and renowned steps.
Página 69 - When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
Página 49 - ... interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this.
Página 49 - The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
Página 45 - 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.
Página 125 - ... seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and of no settled character, in which the man is imprisoned. Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday. And such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.