Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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Page 84
... marriages , our religion we have not chosen , but society has chosen for us . We are parlor soldiers . The rugged battle of fate , where strength is born , we shun . If our young men miscarry in their first enterprizes , they lose all ...
... marriages , our religion we have not chosen , but society has chosen for us . We are parlor soldiers . The rugged battle of fate , where strength is born , we shun . If our young men miscarry in their first enterprizes , they lose all ...
Page 175
... But real action . is in silent moments . The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a call- ing , our marriage , our acquisition of an office , and the like , but in a silent thought by SPIRITUAL LAWS . 175.
... But real action . is in silent moments . The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a call- ing , our marriage , our acquisition of an office , and the like , but in a silent thought by SPIRITUAL LAWS . 175.
Page 186
... marriage , and gives permanence to human society . The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood , seems to re- quire that in order to portray it in vivid tints which every youth and maid should confess ...
... marriage , and gives permanence to human society . The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood , seems to re- quire that in order to portray it in vivid tints which every youth and maid should confess ...
Page 202
... marriage . Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit . The soul is wholly embodied , and the body is wholly ensouled . " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks , and so distinctly wrought , That one might almost say her body ...
... marriage . Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit . The soul is wholly embodied , and the body is wholly ensouled . " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks , and so distinctly wrought , That one might almost say her body ...
Page 205
... marriage , foreseen and prepared from the first , and wholly above their consciousness . Looking at these aims with which two persons , a man and a woman , so variously and correla- tively gifted , are shut up in one house to spend in ...
... marriage , foreseen and prepared from the first , and wholly above their consciousness . Looking at these aims with which two persons , a man and a woman , so variously and correla- tively gifted , are shut up in one house to spend in ...
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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.