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... higher sandy regions . The nomads of Asia follow the pasturage from month to month . In America and Europe , the nomadism is of trade and curiosity ; a progress , certainly , from the gad - fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italo ...
... higher sandy regions . The nomads of Asia follow the pasturage from month to month . In America and Europe , the nomadism is of trade and curiosity ; a progress , certainly , from the gad - fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italo ...
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... better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the do- minion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; HISTORY . 29.
... better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the do- minion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; HISTORY . 29.
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... higher law than that of our will regulates events ; that our painful labors are unnecessary , and fruitless ; that only in our easy , simple , spontaneous action are we strong , and by contenting ourselves with obe- dience we become ...
... higher law than that of our will regulates events ; that our painful labors are unnecessary , and fruitless ; that only in our easy , simple , spontaneous action are we strong , and by contenting ourselves with obe- dience we become ...
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... higher or more interior laws . Neigh bourhood , size , numbers , habits , persons , lose by degrees their power over us . Cause and effect , real affinities , the longing for harmony between the soul and the circumstance , the ...
... higher or more interior laws . Neigh bourhood , size , numbers , habits , persons , lose by degrees their power over us . Cause and effect , real affinities , the longing for harmony between the soul and the circumstance , the ...
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... higher the style we demand of friendship , of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood . We walk alone in the world . Friends , such as we desire , are dreams and fables . But a sublime 194 ESSAY VI .
... higher the style we demand of friendship , of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood . We walk alone in the world . Friends , such as we desire , are dreams and fables . But a sublime 194 ESSAY VI .
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Página 37 - 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 44 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil.
Página 245 - Meantime within man is the soul of the whole ; the wise silence ; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related ; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing, and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
Página 269 - The soul gives itself alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original, and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads, and speaks through it. Then is it glad, young and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light its own, and feels that the grass grows, and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on its nature.
Página 53 - An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony ; the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism, of Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called " the height of Rome " ; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
Página 46 - Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.
Página 86 - To empty here, you must condense there. An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.
Página 61 - Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not.
Página 160 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Página 61 - Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.