The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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... past act or word , because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint 26.
... past act or word , because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint 26.
Page 27
... past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and ...
... past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and ...
Page 42
... past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one thing as much as another . All things are dissolved to their center by their cause , and in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles ...
... past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one thing as much as another . All things are dissolved to their center by their cause , and in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles ...
Page 43
... past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty of the soul . Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye maketh , but the soul is light ; where it is , is day ; where it was , is night ; and history ...
... past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty of the soul . Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye maketh , but the soul is light ; where it is , is day ; where it was , is night ; and history ...
Page 44
... . There is no time to it But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that sur- round him , stands on tiptoe to forsee the future 44.
... . There is no time to it But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that sur- round him , stands on tiptoe to forsee the future 44.
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