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once more in their architecture, — the purest sensuous beauty, -the perfect
medium never overstepping the limit of charming propriety and grace. Then we
have it once more in sculpture, — “ the tongue on the balance of expression,”
those ...
once more in their architecture, — the purest sensuous beauty, -the perfect
medium never overstepping the limit of charming propriety and grace. Then we
have it once more in sculpture, — “ the tongue on the balance of expression,”
those ...
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What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often, and it was undoubtedly
the archetype of that familiar ornament. I have seen in the sky a chain of summer
lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when ...
What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often, and it was undoubtedly
the archetype of that familiar ornament. I have seen in the sky a chain of summer
lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when ...
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... to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not
be tried, -since to try it is to be mad, but for the circumstance, that when the
disease begins in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once
infected, ...
... to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not
be tried, -since to try it is to be mad, but for the circumstance, that when the
disease begins in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once
infected, ...
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Their once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast, and losing in
violence what it gains in extent, it becomes a thorough good understanding. They
resign each other, without complaint, to the good offices which man and woman
are ...
Their once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast, and losing in
violence what it gains in extent, it becomes a thorough good understanding. They
resign each other, without complaint, to the good offices which man and woman
are ...
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... which is shewn by the currency of the by-word, 'No mistake.' But the discomfort
of unpunctuality, of confusion of thought about facts, of imattention to the wants of
to-morrow, is of no nation. The beautiful laws of time and space once ...
... which is shewn by the currency of the by-word, 'No mistake.' But the discomfort
of unpunctuality, of confusion of thought about facts, of imattention to the wants of
to-morrow, is of no nation. The beautiful laws of time and space once ...
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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.