Essays: History. Self-reliance. Compensation. Spiritual laws. Love. Friendship. Prudence. Heroism. The Over-soul. Circles. Intellect. ArtHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 |
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Page 7 - is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are ; And it cometh everywhere. I am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain.
Page 229 - RUBY wine is drunk by knaves, Sugar spends to fatten slaves, Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons; Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotted round his head ; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats ; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
Page 93 - have now'; — or, to push it to its extreme import, —' You sin now, we shall sin by and by; we would sin now, if we could; not being successful we ex~ pect our revenge to-morrow.' The fallacy lay in the immense concession that the bad are successful; that
Page 264 - society possible. 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." The trances of Socrates, the " union" of Plotinus, the vision of Porphyry, the conversion of Paul, the aurora of Behmen, the convulsions of George Fox and
Page 68 - for all that we say is the far-off remembering of the intuition. That thought by what I can now nearest approach to say it, is this. When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any
Page 72 - mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities. 1 shall endeavor to nourish my parents, to support my family, to be the chaste husband of one
Page 111 - if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get any thing without its price, — is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all the action and reaction of nature.
Page 116 - paints itself forth, but no fact is begotten by it; it cannot work, for it is not. It cannot work any good; it cannot work any harm. It is harm inasmuch as it is worse not to be than to be.
Page 99 - is a law. We feel its inspiration ; out there in history we can see its fatal strength. " It is in the world, and the world was made by it." Justice is not postponed. A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life. Oi
Page 111 - is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all the action and reaction of nature. 1 cannot doubt that the high laws which each man sees