Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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Page 63
... hope are alike beneath it . It asks nothing . There is somewhat low even in hope . We are then in vision . There is nothing that can be called grat- itude nor properly joy . The soul is raised over passion . It seeth identity and ...
... hope are alike beneath it . It asks nothing . There is somewhat low even in hope . We are then in vision . There is nothing that can be called grat- itude nor properly joy . The soul is raised over passion . It seeth identity and ...
Page 237
... hope abolishes despair . We give up the past to the objector , and yet we hope . He must explain this hope . We grant that human life is mean ; but how did we find out that it was mean ? What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours ...
... hope abolishes despair . We give up the past to the objector , and yet we hope . He must explain this hope . We grant that human life is mean ; but how did we find out that it was mean ? What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours ...
Page 280
... hope ; renounce aspira- tion ; accept the actual for the necessary ; and talk down to the young . Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost ; let them be lovers ; let them behold truth ; and their eyes are uplifted , their wrinkles ...
... hope ; renounce aspira- tion ; accept the actual for the necessary ; and talk down to the young . Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost ; let them be lovers ; let them behold truth ; and their eyes are uplifted , their wrinkles ...
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