Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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... have thus made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is History , " said Napoleon , “ but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck HISTORY . 13.
... have thus made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is History , " said Napoleon , “ but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck HISTORY . 13.
Page 37
... heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out into their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns , and they mope and wallow ...
... heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out into their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns , and they mope and wallow ...
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... heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man and awe the beast ; stop the ebb of thy soul - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old ...
... heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man and awe the beast ; stop the ebb of thy soul - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old ...
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... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we can- not strongly state one ...
... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we can- not strongly state one ...
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... Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for weeks has done nothing but eat when you were by , that now rolls out these words like bell - strokes . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries ...
... Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for weeks has done nothing but eat when you were by , that now rolls out these words like bell - strokes . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries ...
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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.