Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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... gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor of the human spirit " to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind . " In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul , a gar- land ... gifts are capricious and not to HISTORY . 41.
... gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor of the human spirit " to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind . " In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul , a gar- land ... gifts are capricious and not to HISTORY . 41.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. named ; that their gifts are capricious and not to be trusted ; that who seeks a treasure must not speak ; and the like , I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bre- tagne . Is it otherwise in ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. named ; that their gifts are capricious and not to be trusted ; that who seeks a treasure must not speak ; and the like , I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bre- tagne . Is it otherwise in ...
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... gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do , is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous in actual ...
... gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do , is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous in actual ...
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... gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another , you have only an extemporaneous , half possession . That which each can do best , none but his Maker 92 ...
... gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another , you have only an extemporaneous , half possession . That which each can do best , none but his Maker 92 ...
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... gift , or crime ; then he feels that it is not having ; it does not belong to him , has no root in him , and merely lies there , because no revolution or no robber takes it away . But that which a man is , does always by necessity ...
... gift , or crime ; then he feels that it is not having ; it does not belong to him , has no root in him , and merely lies there , because no revolution or no robber takes it away . But that which a man is , does always by necessity ...
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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.