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... virtue . Crossing a bare common , in snow puddles , at twi- light , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear . In ...
... virtue . Crossing a bare common , in snow puddles , at twi- light , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear . In ...
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... virtue . Every natural action is graceful . Every heroic act is also decent , and causes the place and the bystanders to shine . We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it . Every rational ...
... virtue . Every natural action is graceful . Every heroic act is also decent , and causes the place and the bystanders to shine . We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it . Every rational ...
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... virtue ; " said Sallust . " The winds and waves , " said Gibbon , " are always on the side of the ablest navigators . " So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , - perchance in a scene of great ...
... virtue ; " said Sallust . " The winds and waves , " said Gibbon , " are always on the side of the ablest navigators . " So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , - perchance in a scene of great ...
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... virtue sitting by his side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its tem- ple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only ...
... virtue sitting by his side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its tem- ple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only ...
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... virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each ...
... virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each ...
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Página 87 - Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Página 92 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic i what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 86 - As no airpump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Página 5 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 23 - Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child. Only let his thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture.
Página 31 - ... new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults.
Página 27 - 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 83 - ... things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem. It presently learns that since the dawn of history there has been a constant accumulation and classifying of facts. But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also a law of the human mind?
Página 218 - What is a man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made; a renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, and with every pulsation a new life?
Página 19 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.