EssaysPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1850 - 333 pages |
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Page 72
... intellect is vagabond , and our system of education fosters restlessness . Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind ? Our houses are built with ...
... intellect is vagabond , and our system of education fosters restlessness . Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind ? Our houses are built with ...
Page 94
... intellect is at once infected , so that the man ceases to see God whole in each ob- ject , but is able to see the sensual allurement of an object , and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head , but not the dragon's tail ...
... intellect is at once infected , so that the man ceases to see God whole in each ob- ject , but is able to see the sensual allurement of an object , and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head , but not the dragon's tail ...
Page 155
... intellect , or as truth . But all is sour , if seen as experience . Details are melan- choly ; the plan is seemly and noble . In the actual world — the painful kingdom of time and place- dwell care , and canker , and fear . With thought ...
... intellect , or as truth . But all is sour , if seen as experience . Details are melan- choly ; the plan is seemly and noble . In the actual world — the painful kingdom of time and place- dwell care , and canker , and fear . With thought ...
Page 157
... intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations . But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such dispar- aging words . For persons are love's world , and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young ...
... intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations . But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such dispar- aging words . For persons are love's world , and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young ...
Page 170
... intellect and the heart , from year to year , is the real marriage , foreseen and prepared from the first , and wholly above their consciousness . Look- ing at these aims with which two persons , a man and a woman , so variously and ...
... intellect and the heart , from year to year , is the real marriage , foreseen and prepared from the first , and wholly above their consciousness . Look- ing at these aims with which two persons , a man and a woman , so variously and ...
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Page 37 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 44 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil.
Page 245 - Meantime within man is the soul of the whole ; the wise silence ; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related ; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing, and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
Page 269 - The soul gives itself alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original, and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads, and speaks through it. Then is it glad, young and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light its own, and feels that the grass grows, and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on its nature.
Page 53 - An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony ; the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism, of Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called " the height of Rome " ; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
Page 46 - Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.
Page 86 - To empty here, you must condense there. An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.
Page 61 - Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not.
Page 160 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 61 - Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.