Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 15
... believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain and the Islands , the genius and creative princi- ple of each and of all eras , in my own mind . - We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private ...
... believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain and the Islands , the genius and creative princi- ple of each and of all eras , in my own mind . - We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private ...
Page 47
... 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 the inmost in due time 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 the inmost in due time becomes the ...
Page 66
... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the par- ent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are ...
... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the par- ent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are ...
Page 87
... think good days are preparing for you . Do not believe it . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . COMPENSATION . THE wings of Time are black and white SELF - RELIANCE . 87.
... think good days are preparing for you . Do not believe it . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . COMPENSATION . THE wings of Time are black and white SELF - RELIANCE . 87.
Page 120
... believe in the riches of the soul , in its proper eternity and omnipresence . We do not believe there is any force in to - day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday . We lin- ger in the ruins of the old tent where once we had ...
... believe in the riches of the soul , in its proper eternity and omnipresence . We do not believe there is any force in to - day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday . We lin- ger in the ruins of the old tent where once we had ...
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