Nature, Addresses, and LecturesRiverside Press, 1883 - 372 páginas |
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... perfect exhilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear . In the woods , too , a man casts off his years , as the snake his slough , and at what period soever of life , is always a child . In the woods is perpetual youth . Within these ...
... perfect exhilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear . In the woods , too , a man casts off his years , as the snake his slough , and at what period soever of life , is always a child . In the woods is perpetual youth . Within these ...
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... perfect in its kind , and is the only use of nature which all men appre- hend . The misery of man appears like childish petulance , when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this ...
... perfect in its kind , and is the only use of nature which all men appre- hend . The misery of man appears like childish petulance , when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this ...
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... perfect . The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hy- pothesis of the permanence of nature . We are not built like a ship to be tossed , but like a house to stand . It is a natural consequence of this struc- ture , that so long ...
... perfect . The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hy- pothesis of the permanence of nature . We are not built like a ship to be tossed , but like a house to stand . It is a natural consequence of this struc- ture , that so long ...
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... perfect ; the other , incapable of any assur- ance ; the mind is a part of the nature of things ; the world is a divine dream , from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day . Idealism is a hypothesis to ...
... perfect ; the other , incapable of any assur- ance ; the mind is a part of the nature of things ; the world is a divine dream , from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day . Idealism is a hypothesis to ...
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... perfect without the other . In the uttermost mean- ing of the words , thought is devout , and devotion is thought . Deep calls unto deep . But in actual life , the marriage is not celebrated . There are in- nocent men who worship God ...
... perfect without the other . In the uttermost mean- ing of the words , thought is devout , and devotion is thought . Deep calls unto deep . But in actual life , the marriage is not celebrated . There are in- nocent men who worship God ...
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Página 15 - In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life— no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.
Página 115 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
Página 31 - Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.
Página 22 - To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney, comes out of the din and craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
Página 58 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, , bring again, ' . -' Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Página 105 - ... lies no great way back; he will then find in himself a perfect comprehension of its nature and extent: he will have made his hands meet on the other side, and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior. The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custorn, what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance, — by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. Yes, we are the cowed, — we the trustless. It...
Página 55 - When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added, grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent, and are no longer seen; causes and spirits are seen through them. The best moments of life are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God.
Página 92 - Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
Página 136 - ... married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined. If he had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser for it. The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life into truth, he had not learned. Not one fact in all his experience had he yet imported into his doctrine. This man had ploughed, and planted, and talked, and bought, and sold; he had read books; he had eaten and drunken; his head aches; his heart throbs; he smiles and suffers; yet was there not a surmise,...
Página 84 - ... learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our Zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the polestar for a thousand years?