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... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History ...
... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History ...
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... the name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for you and me . Tantalus means the impos- sibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always 28 ESSAY I.
... the name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for you and me . Tantalus means the impos- sibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always 28 ESSAY I.
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... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe ...
... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe ...
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... mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assur- ance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous ...
... mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assur- ance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous ...
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... Mean- time nature is not slow to equip us in the prison - uni- form of the party to which we adhere . We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience ...
... Mean- time nature is not slow to equip us in the prison - uni- form of the party to which we adhere . We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience ...
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Page 37 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 44 - 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 245 - Meantime within man is the soul of the whole ; the wise silence ; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related ; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing, and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
Page 269 - The soul gives itself alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original, and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads, and speaks through it. Then is it glad, young and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light its own, and feels that the grass grows, and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on its nature.
Page 53 - 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 of Rome " ; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
Page 46 - Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.
Page 86 - To empty here, you must condense there. An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.
Page 61 - Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not.
Page 160 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 61 - 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.