The American Scholar: Self-reliance. CompensationAmerican Book Company, 1893 - 108 páginas Published also in the Eclectic English classics in 1911, with the same introduction and additional notes ascribed to Orren Henry Smith. |
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... things are governed by one law . 66 In speaking of the influence of the past , he dwells chiefly on books . The danger , he tells us , is in placing too much faith in books . Instead of Man Thinking we have the bookworm . Books are the ...
... things are governed by one law . 66 In speaking of the influence of the past , he dwells chiefly on books . The danger , he tells us , is in placing too much faith in books . Instead of Man Thinking we have the bookworm . Books are the ...
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... thing else , and for everything you gain you lose something ? ' that " every secret is told , every crime is punished , every virtue rewarded , every wrong redressed , in silence and certainty ? " The universal acceptation of this ...
... thing else , and for everything you gain you lose something ? ' that " every secret is told , every crime is punished , every virtue rewarded , every wrong redressed , in silence and certainty ? " The universal acceptation of this ...
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... thing , into many things . The planter , who is Man sent out into the field to gather food , is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry . He sees his bushel and his cart , and nothing beyond , and sinks into the ...
... thing , into many things . The planter , who is Man sent out into the field to gather food , is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry . He sees his bushel and his cart , and nothing beyond , and sinks into the ...
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... things , and see in them one nature ; then three , then three thousand ; and so , tyran- nized over by its own unifying2 instinct , it goes on tying things together , diminishing anomalies , discovering roots running under ground ...
... things , and see in them one nature ; then three , then three thousand ; and so , tyran- nized over by its own unifying2 instinct , it goes on tying things together , diminishing anomalies , discovering roots running under ground ...
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... things , well used ; abused , among the worst . What is the right use ? What is the one end , which all means go to ... thing in the world , of value , is the active soul . This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within ...
... things , well used ; abused , among the worst . What is the right use ? What is the one end , which all means go to ... thing in the world , of value , is the active soul . This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within ...
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Página 17 - Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
Página 44 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Página 21 - Instantly the book becomes noxious; the guide is a tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of Reason, having once so opened, having once received this book, stands upon it and makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries believing...
Página 45 - Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
Página 19 - The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun ; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages.
Página 76 - Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Página 28 - If it were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors; in town; in the insight into trades and manufactures; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in science ; in art; to the one end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions. I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech.
Página 60 - Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives.
Página 55 - It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of today. We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
Página 55 - The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and...