Essays, Lectures and OrationsW. S. Orr & Company, 1848 - 364 páginas |
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... religion , and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race pro- gressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are ...
... religion , and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race pro- gressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are ...
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... religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself , in striving to shut out others . Treat men as pawns and ninepins , and you shall suffer as well as they . If you leave out their heart , you shall lose your own . The ...
... religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself , in striving to shut out others . Treat men as pawns and ninepins , and you shall suffer as well as they . If you leave out their heart , you shall lose your own . The ...
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... religion of men , would go on far better than now , and the Heaven predicted from the beginning of the world , and still predicted from the bottom of the heart , would organize itself , as do now the rose , and the air , and the sun . I ...
... religion of men , would go on far better than now , and the Heaven predicted from the beginning of the world , and still predicted from the bottom of the heart , would organize itself , as do now the rose , and the air , and the sun . I ...
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... religion , are all contained in this form , full of soul , in this soul which is all form . The lovers delight in endear- ments , in avowals of love , in comparisons of their regards When alone , they solace themselves with the ...
... religion , are all contained in this form , full of soul , in this soul which is all form . The lovers delight in endear- ments , in avowals of love , in comparisons of their regards When alone , they solace themselves with the ...
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... religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned , and so spoils all conversation with him . But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity but me . My friend gives me entertainment without requir- ing me to ...
... religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned , and so spoils all conversation with him . But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity but me . My friend gives me entertainment without requir- ing me to ...
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abstrac action affections appear astronomy beauty becomes behold better black event Bonduca character church Conservatism conversation divine doctrine earth Emanuel Swedenborg Epaminondas eternal exist fact faculties faith fear feel genius give hand heart heaven honour hope hour human idea inspiration intellect labour light live look man's manual labour means mind moral nature never noble object Parliament of Love perception perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry present prudence racter reason reform relation religion rich scholar seems seen sense sentiment shines society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars sublime talent teach thee things thou thought tion tism to-day Transcendentalist true truth universal Uranus virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words worship Xenophon Zoroaster
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Página 186 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Página 30 - 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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Página 194 - To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Página ix - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise 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.
Página 344 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit, not to be reckoned one character — - not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?
Página 344 - What is the remedy? They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Página 230 - For us the winds do blow; The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight or as our treasure. The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed; Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws; Music and light attend our head. All things unto our flesh are kind In their descent and being; to our mind In their ascent and cause.
Página 196 - Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight 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.
Página 344 - The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
Página 342 - What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan ; the ballad in the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body...