The Children of Good Fortune: An Essay in MoralsHoughton, Mifflin, 1905 - 405 páginas |
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... things so delicate , so elusive , that only an artist can seize them and make them permanent . Where the artist is a master , we stand in a gallery of naked souls . In Rome , it seems hardly credible that the spirit of the first Cæsar ...
... things so delicate , so elusive , that only an artist can seize them and make them permanent . Where the artist is a master , we stand in a gallery of naked souls . In Rome , it seems hardly credible that the spirit of the first Cæsar ...
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... things in mind . Fortune is well symbolized by a face , for she has as many aspects as the competing faces of the picture galleries . Many of these aspects are fair , if only one had the sympathy and the wit to search out the fairness ...
... things in mind . Fortune is well symbolized by a face , for she has as many aspects as the competing faces of the picture galleries . Many of these aspects are fair , if only one had the sympathy and the wit to search out the fairness ...
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... things . Around the corner there lives a man of genius whose good fortune , it may be , seems to me so altogether desirable that I should be willing to face instant death if , in a succeeding incarnation , I might experience a like ...
... things . Around the corner there lives a man of genius whose good fortune , it may be , seems to me so altogether desirable that I should be willing to face instant death if , in a succeeding incarnation , I might experience a like ...
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... thing sought . On the whole , imitation is a poor thing , either in art or in life . The artist who copies , even though he copy masterpieces , gets a journeyman's reward . His proper craft is to create new master- pieces . So in life ...
... thing sought . On the whole , imitation is a poor thing , either in art or in life . The artist who copies , even though he copy masterpieces , gets a journeyman's reward . His proper craft is to create new master- pieces . So in life ...
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... thing , and wrong the undesirable thing , the history of human endeavor is the search , however blind , to know the right and follow it . Saints and sinners are on the same eternal quest , and the line between them is not so hard - and ...
... thing , and wrong the undesirable thing , the history of human endeavor is the search , however blind , to know the right and follow it . Saints and sinners are on the same eternal quest , and the line between them is not so hard - and ...
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The Children of Good Fortune: An Essay in Morals Charles Hanford Henderson Visualização completa - 1905 |
The Children of Good Fortune: An Essay in Morals Charles Hanford Henderson Visualização completa - 1905 |
The Children of Good Fortune: An Essay in Morals Charles Hanford Henderson Visualização completa - 1905 |
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action activity adjustment of means altruism attain attitude becomes believe called cardinal virtue cern chastening child-labor church commonly defeat desire devoid double aspect duct duty efficiency and worth egoism ends of conduct essential excellence fact fail failure feeling freedom function genuine habits happiness heart human conduct human wealth idea ideal immoral indi individual good fortune industrial inevitable inner instinct institution knowledge larger less live majority marriage matter means to ends measure ment method mind mood moral person moralists nature neighbor ness objective objective ideal occupations one's opportunity organism parents perfection point of view possession possible practical present problem properly purpose pursuit quest question reality regard relation religion rience science of right seems sense side social welfare society sort souls spirit standard strength success theosis things tion true truth truth-telling uncon vidual vital Weltschmerz whole wholesome wholly women wrong wrong-doing
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Página 204 - Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.
Página 70 - So that no school can avoid taking for the ultimate moral aim a desirable state of feeling called by whatever name — gratification, enjoyment, happiness.
Página 202 - Our nervous systems have (in Dr. Carpenter's words) grown to the way in which they have been exercised, just as a sheet of paper or a coat, once creased or folded, tends to fall forever afterward into the same identical folds.
Página 149 - The best man is he who most tries to perfect himself, and the happiest man is he who most feels that he is perfecting himself...
Página 204 - We speak, it is true, of good habits and of bad habits; but, when people use the word "habit," in the majority of instances it is a bad habit which they have in mind. They talk of the smoking-habit and the swearing-habit and the drinking-habit, but not of the abstention-habit or the moderation-habit or the courage-habit. But the fact is that our virtues are habits as much as our vices.
Página 117 - Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had something in itself beautiful, elevating, and meritorious in them; as if the British Philistine would have only to present himself before the Great Judge with his twelve children, in order to be received among the sheep as a matter of right!
Página 346 - Bible, (the law spoken of in the text,) declared that, if he had his life to live over again, he would spend it in the study of the Word of God.
Página 103 - He was told to sell all that he had and give to the poor; and we are told that he went away sorrowing.
Página 45 - He extended this proposition afterwards by analogy, to all the celestial bodies, and established as a principle, that all particles of matter attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance.