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... heaven and earth meet and adorn each other , it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once we wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well ...
... heaven and earth meet and adorn each other , it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once we wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well ...
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... heaven reserves an equal scope for every creature . Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the con- cave sphere and beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation . The heroes of the hour are relatively ...
... heaven reserves an equal scope for every creature . Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the con- cave sphere and beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation . The heroes of the hour are relatively ...
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... soul is Vishnu ; and animals and stars are transient paint- ings ; and light is whitewash ; and durations are deceptive ; and form is imprisonment ; and heaven itself a decoy . ' That which the soul seeks PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . 51.
... soul is Vishnu ; and animals and stars are transient paint- ings ; and light is whitewash ; and durations are deceptive ; and form is imprisonment ; and heaven itself a decoy . ' That which the soul seeks PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . 51.
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... heaven , - liberation from nature . If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity , in which all things are absorbed , action tends directly backwards to diversity . The first is the course or gravitation of mind ; the second is the ...
... heaven , - liberation from nature . If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity , in which all things are absorbed , action tends directly backwards to diversity . The first is the course or gravitation of mind ; the second is the ...
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... heaven to earth , of matter to mind , of the part to the whole , is our guide . As there is a science of stars , called astronomy ; a science of quantities , called mathematics ; a science of qualities , called chem- istry ; so there is ...
... heaven to earth , of matter to mind , of the part to the whole , is our guide . As there is a science of stars , called astronomy ; a science of quantities , called mathematics ; a science of qualities , called chem- istry ; so there is ...
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Page 12 - I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty ; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
Page 12 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Page 86 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Page 49 - Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
Page 226 - ... for creation. We are always in peril, always in a bad plight, just on the edge of destruction and only to be saved by invention and courage. This vigor was guarded and tempered by the coldest prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage, but the result of calculation. His idea of the best defence consists in being still the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was...
Page 189 - It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it ; and of him who can adequately place it.
Page 197 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 160 - The Essays, therefore, are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into his head ; treating everything without ceremony, yet with masculine sense. There have been men with deeper insight ; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance of thoughts : he is never dull, never insincere, and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for.
Page 156 - Essays. I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakespeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne. It is the only book which we certainly know to have been in the poet's library.
Page 152 - Let us have a robust, manly life ; let us know what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid and seasonable and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with real men and women, and not with skipping ghosts.