Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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Page 59
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 66
... virtue or vice only by overt actions and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every mo- ment . Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions , so they be each honest and natural in their hour . For of one ...
... virtue or vice only by overt actions and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every mo- ment . Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions , so they be each honest and natural in their hour . For of one ...
Page 67
... virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagina- tion ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed ...
... virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagina- tion ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed ...
Page 69
... virtue and the possible of man . An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as , the Reformation , of Luther ; Quakerism , of Fox ; Methodism , of Wesley ; Abolition , of Clarkson . Scipio , Milton called " the height of Rome ...
... virtue and the possible of man . An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as , the Reformation , of Luther ; Quakerism , of Fox ; Methodism , of Wesley ; Abolition , of Clarkson . Scipio , Milton called " the height of Rome ...
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... the sum total of both is the same . Why all this deference to Alfred , and Scander- beg , and Gustavus ? Suppose they were vir- tuous : did they wear out virtue ? As great a stake depends on your private act to - day , 70 ESSAY II .
... the sum total of both is the same . Why all this deference to Alfred , and Scander- beg , and Gustavus ? Suppose they were vir- tuous : did they wear out virtue ? As great a stake depends on your private act to - day , 70 ESSAY II .
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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.