Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 49
... past act or word , because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint them . But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of ...
... past act or word , because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint them . But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of ...
Page 50
... past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they ...
... past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they ...
Page 58
... past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and , in the universal miracle , petty and particular mir- acles ...
... past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and , in the universal miracle , petty and particular mir- acles ...
Page 59
... past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on titpoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present , above time . ― This should be plain enough . Yet see what ...
... past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on titpoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present , above time . ― This should be plain enough . Yet see what ...
Page 61
... 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 be- comes ; for that for ever degrades the past , turns all riches to poverty , all reputation to a shaine ...
... 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 be- comes ; for that for ever degrades the past , turns all riches to poverty , all reputation to a shaine ...
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