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... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Cati- line . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and ...
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Cati- line . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and ...
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... person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or em- pires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view from which ...
... person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or em- pires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view from which ...
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... person as he , so armed and so mo- tived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with ...
... person as he , so armed and so mo- tived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with ...
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... persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture ...
... persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture ...
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... persons who have great good sense without knowing it , be- fore yet the reflective habit has become the pre- dominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are ...
... persons who have great good sense without knowing it , be- fore yet the reflective habit has become the pre- dominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are ...
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Página 407 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
Página 57 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Página 431 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Página 67 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day.
Página 341 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Página 270 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Página 271 - God comes to see us without bell :" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God.
Página 48 - A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.
Página 76 - ... from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
Página 64 - The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, the essence of virtue, and the essence of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.