EssaysHenry Altemus, 1895 - 270 pages |
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... virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and ...
... virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and ...
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... virtue of his being once a child ; beside that always there are individ- uals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the muse of Hel- las . A great ...
... virtue of his being once a child ; beside that always there are individ- uals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the muse of Hel- las . A great ...
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... virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to la ...
... virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to la ...
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... virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right di- rection . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor of the ...
... virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right di- rection . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor of the ...
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... virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and cus- toms . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconform- ist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
... virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and cus- toms . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconform- ist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
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Page 43 - 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 54 - Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Page 48 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.
Page 48 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this: the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Page 47 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Page 53 - But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place?
Page 16 - Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Page 75 - That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare?
Page 238 - Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Always our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine. As with events, so it is with thoughts.
Page 56 - It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.