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All literature writes the character of the wise man. Books, monuments, pictures, conversation, are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him, and he is stimulated ...
All literature writes the character of the wise man. Books, monuments, pictures, conversation, are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him, and he is stimulated ...
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Much revolving them he writes out freely his humor, and gives them body to his own imagination. And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the ...
Much revolving them he writes out freely his humor, and gives them body to his own imagination. And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the ...
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Broader and deeper we must write our annals,—from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,— if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature, instead of this old chronology of ...
Broader and deeper we must write our annals,—from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,— if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature, instead of this old chronology of ...
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Contents
COMPENSATION | |
SPIRITUAL LAWS | |
LOVE | |
FRIENDSHIP | |
PRUDENCE | |
HEROISM | |
THE OVERSOUL | |
CIRCLES | |
INTELLECT | |
XII | |
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