Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any... Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion - Page 65by Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856Full view - About this book
| David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 644 pages
...like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles. Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body,...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. John Farmer sat at his door one September evening, after a hard day's work, his mind still running... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 566 pages
...like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles. Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body,...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. John Farmer sat at his door one September evening, after a hard day's work, his mind still running... | |
| Helena Born - 1902 - 134 pages
...and taken to the " open road." Their joy in themselves and others was not confined to physiognomy. " Every man is the builder of a temple called his body,...own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead." " I would have every man so much like a wild antelope, so much a part and parcel of nature, that his... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 pages
...like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles. Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body,...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. John Farmer sat at his door one September evening, after a hard day's work, his mind still running... | |
| Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - 1905 - 614 pages
...qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling." "We are all sculptors and painters, and our material...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them." riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment." "Our thoughts... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 428 pages
...like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles. Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body,...features, any meanness or \ sensuality to imbrute them. John Farmer sat at his door one September evening, after a hard day's work, his mind still running... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...healthy weather. — Franklin. Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters. — Shakespeare. "b X >+ >+ =+ reâne a man's features ; any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.— Thoreau. The cheek is apter... | |
| Maria Scott Beale Chance - 1910 - 314 pages
...river he must cross, so that finally he may reach its opposite bank in safety. [S3] m HEALTH OF MIND " Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body,...is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness bee/ins at once to refine a man's features, and meanness or sensuality to imbrute them." — THOREAU.... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland - 1910 - 128 pages
...tongue; for his face is the one record fface * * of all he has thought and endeavored." Says Thoreau: " We are all sculptors and painters, and our material...refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to embrute them." Says William C. Gannett: "A face where sin has plowed its gullies deep, is a glimpse... | |
| John Calvin Metcalf - 1914 - 428 pages
...sentiment, which only a poet-philosopher could utter. Here is one, for instance, chosen almost at random: Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body,...all sculptors and painters, and our material is our flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or... | |
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