Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 12
... believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Palestine , Italy , Spain , and the Islands , - the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in ...
... believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Palestine , Italy , Spain , and the Islands , - the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in ...
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... believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you . in your private heart , is true for all men , -that is genius . Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the ...
... believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you . in your private heart , is true for all men , -that is genius . Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the ...
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... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators ...
... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators ...
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... for you . Do not believe it . It can never be so . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . COMPENSATION COMPENSATION . EVER since I was a boy , SELF - RELIANCE . 81.
... for you . Do not believe it . It can never be so . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . COMPENSATION COMPENSATION . EVER since I was a boy , SELF - RELIANCE . 81.
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... believe in the riches of the soul , in its proper eternity and omni- presence . We do not believe there is any force in to - day to rival or re - create that beautiful yester- day . We linger in the ruins of the old tent , where once we ...
... believe in the riches of the soul , in its proper eternity and omni- presence . We do not believe there is any force in to - day to rival or re - create that beautiful yester- day . We linger in the ruins of the old tent , where once we ...
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