Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. The American Scholar - Page 94by Theodore Parker - 1907 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 574 pages
...Father in heaven is perfect." The discourse which comes to us from the Trimount oracle commands us, "Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions." The seer of Patmos foretells a heavenly Jerusalem, of which he says, "There shall in no wise enter... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...Father in heaven is perfect." The discourse which comes to us from the Trimount oracle commands us, "Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions." The seer of Patmos foretells a heavenly Jerusalem, of which he says, "There shall in no wise enter... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...Father in heaven is perfect." The discourse which comes to us from the Trimount oracle commands us, "Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions." The seer of Patmos foretells a heavenly Jerusalem, of which he says, "There shall in no wise enter... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...Father in heaven is perfect." The discourse which comes to us from the Trimount oracle commands us, "Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions." The seer of Patmos foretells a heavenly Jerusalem, of which he says, "There shall in no wise enter... | |
| 1892 - 456 pages
...attuned to its harmonies. "Nature," he says, " is not fixed, but fluid ; Spirit alters, molds, makes it; build therefore your own world. As fast as you conform...your mind that will unfold its great proportions." TABOO OF NAMES BY THE MALAGASY.- — There are no family names in Madagascar, and almost every personal... | |
| 1895 - 430 pages
...soul of the Whole and reflects universal beauty. ' Build, therefore, your own world," says Kmeason, " as fast as you conform your life to the pure idea...they are temporary and shall be no more seen. The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation — a dominion as is now beyond his dream... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 pages
...scholar's garret. Yet, line for line, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names. Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. As, when the summer comes from the south, the enow-banks melt, and the face of the earth becomes green... | |
| William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 754 pages
...man can not have his flank turned, can not be outgeneraled; but put him where you will, he stands. Build, therefore your own world. As fast as you conform...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. The world is nothing,... | |
| Horatio Willis Dresser - 1898 - 272 pages
...appears. . . . Not in nature, but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees." f The conclusion then is: "Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions." J * Essays, vol. ii. p. 19. t Spiritual Laws. : Nature. IT; In other words, Understand and develop... | |
| 1899 - 136 pages
...is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws at his need inexhaustible power. FROM " PROSPECTS." Build therefore your own world. As fast as you conform...revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. FROM "THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR." The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Drudgery, calamity,... | |
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