Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 9
... actions which does not allow us to go behind them . Heroism feels and never reasons , and therefore is always right ... action , yet for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed , and is not open to the censure of philosophers or ...
... actions which does not allow us to go behind them . Heroism feels and never reasons , and therefore is always right ... action , yet for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed , and is not open to the censure of philosophers or ...
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... pathy of people in those actions whose excel- lence is that they outrun sympathy and ap- peal to a tardy justice . If you would serve your brother , because it is fit for you to serve him , do not take back your words when you H ROISM . 15.
... pathy of people in those actions whose excel- lence is that they outrun sympathy and ap- peal to a tardy justice . If you would serve your brother , because it is fit for you to serve him , do not take back your words when you H ROISM . 15.
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... action with the calmness of Phocion , when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy , yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle . There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought ...
... action with the calmness of Phocion , when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy , yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle . There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought ...
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... actions , then they pass to the true palace of beauty , more and more inflame their love of it , and by this love extinguishing the base affection , as the sun puts out the fire by shining on the hearth , they become pure and hallowed ...
... actions , then they pass to the true palace of beauty , more and more inflame their love of it , and by this love extinguishing the base affection , as the sun puts out the fire by shining on the hearth , they become pure and hallowed ...
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... actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the water - pot lose all their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
... actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the water - pot lose all their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
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