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... the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man ESSAY HISTORY.
... the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man ESSAY HISTORY.
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... exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat corre- sponding in his life . Every thing tends in a most wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and ...
... exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat corre- sponding in his life . Every thing tends in a most wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and ...
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... exists . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a ... exist in the secreting organs of the fish . The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners ...
... exists . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a ... exist in the secreting organs of the fish . The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners ...
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... exists , but , as a class , from their superior organization , they have surpassed all . They combine the energy of manhood with the engaging unconsciousness of childhood . Our reve- rence for them is our reverence for childhood ...
... exists , but , as a class , from their superior organization , they have surpassed all . They combine the energy of manhood with the engaging unconsciousness of childhood . Our reve- rence for them is our reverence for childhood ...
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... , and which seems the self - defence of man against this untruth , namely , a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal , if it could , HISTORY . 29.
... , and which seems the self - defence of man against this untruth , namely , a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal , if it could , HISTORY . 29.
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Página 45 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 38 - 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 40 - A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events.
Página 42 - 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 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Página 67 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Página 195 - ... counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love.
Página 45 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
Página 138 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
Página 90 - Some damning circumstance always transpires. The laws and substances of nature water, snow, wind, gravitation - become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.