Essays: First SeriesD. McKay, 1888 - 396 pages |
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... character . We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by stoic or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each ...
... character . We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by stoic or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each ...
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... character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every fact that befalls , —in the running river , and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage ten- dered , love flows from mute nature ...
... character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every fact that befalls , —in the running river , and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage ten- dered , love flows from mute nature ...
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... character . See the variety of the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thu- cydides , Xenophon , Plutarch have given it - a very sufficient ...
... character . See the variety of the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thu- cydides , Xenophon , Plutarch have given it - a very sufficient ...
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... character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it as- sumed . In these caverns already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of ...
... character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it as- sumed . In these caverns already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of ...
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... given to him to till . The power which resides in him is new in na- ture , and none but he knows what that is which he can do , nor does he know until he has tried . first Not for nothing one face , one character , 52 ESSAY II .
... given to him to till . The power which resides in him is new in na- ture , and none but he knows what that is which he can do , nor does he know until he has tried . first Not for nothing one face , one character , 52 ESSAY II .
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Page 64 - 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.
Page 52 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 52 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page 75 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
Page 128 - 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.
Page 78 - Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent. To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies, because it works and is.
Page 121 - As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet, but when the hunter came, his feet saved him, and afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him.
Page 60 - 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. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Page 53 - 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 connection of events.
Page 81 - O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law.