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Página 55
... at One side ; the permitted side, not as a man, but as a parish minister ? He is a
retained attorney, and these airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation. Well,
most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached
...
... at One side ; the permitted side, not as a man, but as a parish minister ? He is a
retained attorney, and these airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation. Well,
most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached
...
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They think that to be great is to get only one side of nature—the Sweet, without
the other side—the bitter. Steadily is this dividing and detaching counteracted. Up
to this day, it must be owned, no projector has had the smallest success.
They think that to be great is to get only one side of nature—the Sweet, without
the other side—the bitter. Steadily is this dividing and detaching counteracted. Up
to this day, it must be owned, no projector has had the smallest success.
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Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode;
every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or
expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. The minds of
men are at ...
Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode;
every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or
expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. The minds of
men are at ...
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The river-bank, the weed at the water-side, the old house, the foolish person, —
however neglected in the passing, — have a grace in the past. Even the corpse
that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house. The
soul ...
The river-bank, the weed at the water-side, the old house, the foolish person, —
however neglected in the passing, — have a grace in the past. Even the corpse
that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house. The
soul ...
Página 141
like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one ; on that
side, all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over God's depths
into an infinite sea. This talent and this call depend on his organisation, or the ...
like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one ; on that
side, all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over God's depths
into an infinite sea. This talent and this call depend on his organisation, or the ...
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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.