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... talents and character they chance to see , painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke ; afterwards , when they come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings , they understand them , and are willing to let ...
... talents and character they chance to see , painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke ; afterwards , when they come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings , they understand them , and are willing to let ...
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... talent of another , you have only an extem- poraneous , half possession . That which each can do best , none but his Maker can teach him . No man yet knows what it is , nor can , till that person has exhibited it . Where is the master ...
... talent of another , you have only an extem- poraneous , half possession . That which each can do best , none but his Maker can teach him . No man yet knows what it is , nor can , till that person has exhibited it . Where is the master ...
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... talents , or your heart . Always pay ; for , first or last , you must pay your entire debt . Per- sons and events may stand for a time between you and justice , but it is only a postponement . You must pay at last your own debt . If you ...
... talents , or your heart . Always pay ; for , first or last , you must pay your entire debt . Per- sons and events may stand for a time between you and justice , but it is only a postponement . You must pay at last your own debt . If you ...
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... talents of men , until he has suffered from the one , and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same . Has he a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society ? Thereby he is driven to en- tertain himself alone ...
... talents of men , until he has suffered from the one , and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same . Has he a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society ? Thereby he is driven to en- tertain himself alone ...
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... talent is the call . There is one direction in which all space is open to him . He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion . He is like a ship in a river ; he runs against obstructions on every side but one ; on ...
... talent is the call . There is one direction in which all space is open to him . He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion . He is like a ship in a river ; he runs against obstructions on every side but one ; on ...
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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.