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Page 12
... whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error . His service to us is of like sort . It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes ; yet how splendid is that benefit ...
... whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error . His service to us is of like sort . It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes ; yet how splendid is that benefit ...
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... " - 99 - This is the moral of biography ; yet it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions , whose names may not last as long . What is he whom I never think of ? Whilst USES OF GREAT MEN . 19.
... " - 99 - This is the moral of biography ; yet it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions , whose names may not last as long . What is he whom I never think of ? Whilst USES OF GREAT MEN . 19.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. What is he whom I never think of ? Whilst in every solitude are those who succor our genius and stimulate us in wonderful manners . There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. What is he whom I never think of ? Whilst in every solitude are those who succor our genius and stimulate us in wonderful manners . There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can ...
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... whilst every individual strives to grow and ex- clude and to exclude and grow , to the extremities of the universe , and to impose the law of its being on every other creature , Nature steadily aims to protect each against every other ...
... whilst every individual strives to grow and ex- clude and to exclude and grow , to the extremities of the universe , and to impose the law of its being on every other creature , Nature steadily aims to protect each against every other ...
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... whilst he lives , to scatter the seeds of science and of song , that climate , corn , animals , men , may be milder , and the germs of love and benefit may be multi plied . PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . II . PLATO 38 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
... whilst he lives , to scatter the seeds of science and of song , that climate , corn , animals , men , may be milder , and the germs of love and benefit may be multi plied . PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . II . PLATO 38 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
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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.