The Metaphysical Magazine, Volume 21Metaphysical Publishing Company, 1907 |
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Page 123 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right, Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Page 146 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts.
Page 185 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Page 466 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right. And when religious sects ran mad, He held, in spite of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad, It will not be improved by burning.
Page 284 - Is fixed a Power Divine which moves to good Only its laws endure." .... * ****** "The Books say well, My Brothers! each man's life The outcome of his former living is; The bygone wrongs bring forth sorrows and woes The bygone right breeds bliss. That which ye sow, ye reap. See yonder fields! The
Page 368 - all bravely. To listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart. To study hard, think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never, in a word:— To let the Spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be "my symphony.
Page 368 - MY SYMPHONY. To live content with small means. To seek elegance, rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. To do all cheerfully, bear all bravely. To listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart. To study hard, think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry
Page 360 - of the goldenrod— Some of us call it Autumn, And others call it God. Like tides on a crescent sea-beach, When the moon is new and thin, Into our heart's high yearnings Come welling and surging in, Come from the mystic ocean Whose rim no foot has trod— Some of us call it Longing, And others call it God.
Page 275 - I knew a man in Christ about fourteen years ago (whether in the body I cannot tell; or whether out of the body I cannot tell:
Page 111 - If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock in order to be equally distributed among the species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they have already to that which would fall to them by such a division.