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... whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower ...
... whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower ...
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... whilst subject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervour , whilst now we pray with the utmost cold- ness and very seldom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature , -in all fable as well as in ...
... whilst subject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervour , whilst now we pray with the utmost cold- ness and very seldom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature , -in all fable as well as in ...
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... whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is ...
... whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is ...
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... whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation is to be made to these last hereafter , by giving them the like gratifica- tions another day , -bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the ...
... whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation is to be made to these last hereafter , by giving them the like gratifica- tions another day , -bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the ...
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... Whilst the world is thus dual , so is every one of in every particle . There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea , day and night , man and woman , in a reaction , SO single needle of the pine , in a kernel of corn in ...
... Whilst the world is thus dual , so is every one of in every particle . There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea , day and night , man and woman , in a reaction , SO single needle of the pine , in a kernel of corn in ...
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Page 47 - them heart and life, though they should clothe 'God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers 'and divines. With consistency a great soul has
Page 40 - put them in fear. These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which
Page 44 - world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness
Page 56 - ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes, for that for ever degrades the past, turns all
Page 43 - Societies;—though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.^ Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as
Page 39 - transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected comer, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark. What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and
Page 89 - No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him," said Burke. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on
Page 316 - fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth
Page 88 - of proverbs, whose teaching is as true and as omnipresent as that of birds and flies. All things are double, one against another.—Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love.— Give and it shall be given you.—He that
Page 43 - of my fellows any secondary testimony. • What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think . This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It