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... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
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... experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you ...
... experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you ...
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... experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , — must go over the whole ground . What it does not ...
... experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , — must go over the whole ground . What it does not ...
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... experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods 22 ...
... experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods 22 ...
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... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the ...
... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the ...
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Page 254 - What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love.
Page 318 - ... influx. Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both.
Page 83 - What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under ! But compare the health of the two men and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength.
Page 62 - A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height 20 of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout...
Page 47 - 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.
Page 50 - The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
Page 121 - We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in today to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, "Up and onward for...
Page 57 - ... when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
Page 54 - I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, and the thousandfold relief societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.
Page 343 - It is in vain that we look for genius to reiterate its miracles in the old arts ; it is its instinct to find beauty and holiness in new and necessary facts, in the field and roadside, in the shop and mill. Proceeding from a religious heart it will raise to a divine use the railroad, the insurance office, the joint-stock company...