EssaysJ. Munroe and Company, 1848 - 333 páginas |
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... behold is only an aspiration , or is our honest effort also . ―― We are all discerners of spirits . That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power . The inter- course of society , its trade , its religion , its friend- ships ...
... behold is only an aspiration , or is our honest effort also . ―― We are all discerners of spirits . That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power . The inter- course of society , its trade , its religion , its friend- ships ...
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... Behold , it saith , I am born into the great , the universal mind . I , the imperfect , adore my own Perfect . I am somehow receptive of the great soul , and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars , and feel them to be the fair ...
... Behold , it saith , I am born into the great , the universal mind . I , the imperfect , adore my own Perfect . I am somehow receptive of the great soul , and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars , and feel them to be the fair ...
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... behold it as a god upraised above care and fear . in our life , or any record of our tions , disentangled from the web of our unconscious- ness , becomes an object impersonal and immortal . It is the past restored , but embalmed . A ...
... behold it as a god upraised above care and fear . in our life , or any record of our tions , disentangled from the web of our unconscious- ness , becomes an object impersonal and immortal . It is the past restored , but embalmed . A ...
Página 302
... behold , all the mats and rubbish which had lit- tered his garret become precious . Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle , revisits the day , and delights all men by its piquancy and ...
... behold , all the mats and rubbish which had lit- tered his garret become precious . Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle , revisits the day , and delights all men by its piquancy and ...
Página 320
... behold what is carved and painted , as students of the mystery of Form . The virtue of art lies in de- tachment , in sequestering one object from the embar- rassing variety . Until one thing comes out from the connection of things ...
... behold what is carved and painted , as students of the mystery of Form . The virtue of art lies in de- tachment , in sequestering one object from the embar- rassing variety . Until one thing comes out from the connection of things ...
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Página 81 - A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Página 47 - Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
Página 41 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.
Página 52 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Página 41 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
Página 52 - Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?
Página 69 - ... 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 107 - A great man is always willing to be little. Whilst he sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood ; he has gained facts ; learns his ignorance ; is cured of the insanity of conceit ; has got moderation and real skill.
Página 63 - Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.
Página 68 - If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers.