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... Stand before each of its tablets and say , " under this mask , did my Proteus nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats ...
... Stand before each of its tablets and say , " under this mask , did my Proteus nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats ...
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... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a ... stand before every public and every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon ...
... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a ... stand before every public and every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon ...
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... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father , and the race of mortals ; and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove ...
... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father , and the race of mortals ; and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove ...
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... stand . ” All the fictions of the Middle Age explain them- selves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and all that is ascribed to it , is a deep ...
... stand . ” All the fictions of the Middle Age explain them- selves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and all that is ascribed to it , is a deep ...
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... . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read than the dissector or the antiquary . SELF - RELIANCE . " Ne te quæsiveris extra . 18 ESSAY I.
... . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read than the dissector or the antiquary . SELF - RELIANCE . " Ne te quæsiveris extra . 18 ESSAY I.
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Page 24 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 139 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, — but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; — is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Page 39 - Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought, and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people, the habit and form of the government, he will create a house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also.
Page 23 - To 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 outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
Page 40 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.
Page 32 - When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the footprints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new.
Page 47 - An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.
Page 27 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 30 - We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Page 28 - Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some other person. Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else; it takes place of the whole creation. The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent.