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... virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own 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 ...
... virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own 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 ...
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... virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics . A person of child- like genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I admire ...
... virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics . A person of child- like genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I admire ...
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... virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to ...
... virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to ...
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... virtue in most request is conformity . Self- reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and customs . Whoso would be a man , must be a noncon- formist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
... virtue in most request is conformity . Self- reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and customs . Whoso would be a man , must be a noncon- formist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
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... virtue or vice only by overt actions , and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . 2 There will be an agreement in whatever vari- ety of actions , so they be each honest and natu- ral in their hour . For of one will ...
... virtue or vice only by overt actions , and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . 2 There will be an agreement in whatever vari- ety of actions , so they be each honest and natu- ral in their hour . For of one will ...
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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.