Essays: First SeriesD. McKay, 1888 - 396 pages |
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Page 62
... mean , " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurping ...
... mean , " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurping ...
Page 66
... mean it not , and see it not . My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects . The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also . We pass for what we are ...
... mean it not , and see it not . My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects . The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also . We pass for what we are ...
Page 68
... reality , reminds you of nothing else . It takes place of the whole creation . The man must be so much that he must make all circum- stances indifferent , -put all means into the I first shade . This all great men are and do . 68 ESSAY II .
... reality , reminds you of nothing else . It takes place of the whole creation . The man must be so much that he must make all circum- stances indifferent , -put all means into the I first shade . This all great men are and do . 68 ESSAY II .
Page 74
... means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one thing as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their ...
... means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one thing as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their ...
Page 86
... means to effect a private end , is theft and mean- ness . It supposes dualism and not unity in na- ture and consciousness . As soon as the man is at one with God , he will not beg , He will then see prayer in all action . The prayer of ...
... means to effect a private end , is theft and mean- ness . It supposes dualism and not unity in na- ture and consciousness . As soon as the man is at one with God , he will not beg , He will then see prayer in all action . The prayer of ...
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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.
Page 52 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 52 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page 75 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
Page 128 - Some damning circumstance always transpires. The laws and substances of nature water, snow, wind, gravitation - become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
Page 78 - Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent. To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies, because it works and is.
Page 121 - As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet, but when the hunter came, his feet saved him, and afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him.
Page 60 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Page 53 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 81 - O father, O 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.