Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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... faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some ...
... faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some ...
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... face is a confused blur of features , but composed of incorrupt , sharply defined and symmetrical features , whose eye- sockets are so formed that it would be impos- sible for such eyes to squint , and take furtive glances on this side ...
... face is a confused blur of features , but composed of incorrupt , sharply defined and symmetrical features , whose eye- sockets are so formed that it would be impos- sible for such eyes to squint , and take furtive glances on this side ...
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... face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts , namely , that the ...
... face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts , namely , that the ...
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... to him to till . The power which resides in him is new in na- ture , and none but he knows what that is which he can do , nor does he know until he has tried . Not for nothing one face , one character , one 52 ESSAY II .
... to him to till . The power which resides in him is new in na- ture , and none but he knows what that is which he can do , nor does he know until he has tried . Not for nothing one face , one character , one 52 ESSAY II .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not for nothing one face , one character , one fact makes much impression on him , and an- other none . It is not without pre - established harmony , this sculpture in the memory . The eye was placed where one ray ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not for nothing one face , one character , one fact makes much impression on him , and an- other none . It is not without pre - established harmony , this sculpture in the memory . The eye was placed where one ray ...
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Page 72 - 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 293 - From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
Page 294 - God comes to see us without bell;" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God.
Page 18 - Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Page 305 - A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light.
Page 51 - 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.
Page 160 - God screens us evermore from premature ideas. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
Page 120 - All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat ; an eye for an eye ; a tooth for a tooth ; blood for blood ; measure for measure ; love for love. — Give and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.
Page 107 - Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the heart...
Page 64 - 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.