Essays: First SeriesD. McKay, 1888 - 396 pages |
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... mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the ...
... mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the ...
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... mind . Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet ...
... mind . Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet ...
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... mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely ...
... mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely ...
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... mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the sufficient reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work , as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in the ...
... mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the sufficient reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work , as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in the ...
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... mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still repro- duced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , its pine , its oak , its fir , its spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the ...
... mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still repro- duced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , its pine , its oak , its fir , its spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the ...
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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.