Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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Page 61
... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into ...
... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into ...
Page 62
... present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround them , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong un- til he too lives with nature in the present , above time ...
... present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround them , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong un- til he too lives with nature in the present , above time ...
Page 64
... present , and will always all cir- cumstance , and what is called life , and what is called death . 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 ...
... present , and will always all cir- cumstance , and what is called life , and what is called death . 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 ...
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