Essays: First SeriesPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 333 pages |
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... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of rou- tine the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which ...
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of rou- tine the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which ...
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... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople ! What does ...
... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople ! What does ...
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... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to ...
... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to ...
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... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind . which analysis cannot go , all things find their com- mon origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know ...
... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind . which analysis cannot go , all things find their com- mon origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know ...
Page 57
... of the present . thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , -means , teachers , - texts , temples fall ; it lives now , SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
... of the present . thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , -means , teachers , - texts , temples fall ; it lives now , SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
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