Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the roadside and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer she swallowed him alive . If he ...
... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the roadside and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer she swallowed him alive . If he ...
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... thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not be- long . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ...
... thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not be- long . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ...
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... thou- sand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they ...
... thou- sand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they ...
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... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Every- where I am bereaved of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every ...
... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Every- where I am bereaved of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every ...
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... thou canst not hope too much or dare too much . There is at this moment , there is for me an utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias , or trowel of the Egyptians , or the pen of Moses , or Dante , but ...
... thou canst not hope too much or dare too much . There is at this moment , there is for me an utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias , or trowel of the Egyptians , or the pen of Moses , or Dante , but ...
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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.