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Side 55
... repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors , and as they grow older , of the men of talents and character they chance to see , -painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke ; afterwards , when SELF - RELIANCE . 55.
... repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors , and as they grow older , of the men of talents and character they chance to see , -painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke ; afterwards , when SELF - RELIANCE . 55.
Side 67
... talent of another you have only an extemporaneous , half possession . That which each can do best , none but his Maker can teach him . No man yet knows what it is , nor can , till that person has exhibited it . Where is the master who ...
... talent of another you have only an extemporaneous , half possession . That which each can do best , none but his Maker can teach him . No man yet knows what it is , nor can , till that person has exhibited it . Where is the master who ...
Side 88
... talents , or your heart . Always pay ; for , first or last , you must pay your entire debt . Per- sons and events may stand for a time between you and justice , but it is only a postponement . You must pay at last your own debt . If you ...
... talents , or your heart . Always pay ; for , first or last , you must pay your entire debt . Per- sons and events may stand for a time between you and justice , but it is only a postponement . You must pay at last your own debt . If you ...
Side 91
... talents of men , until he has suffered from the one , and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same . a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society ? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone , and ...
... talents of men , until he has suffered from the one , and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same . a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society ? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone , and ...
Side 106
... talent is the call . There is one direction in which all space is open to him . He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion . He is like a ship in a river ; he runs against obstructions on every side but one ; on ...
... talent is the call . There is one direction in which all space is open to him . He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion . He is like a ship in a river ; he runs against obstructions on every side but one ; on ...
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Side 45 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Side 38 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Side 40 - A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. 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 connexion of events.
Side 42 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil.
Side 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Side 67 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Side 195 - ... counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love.
Side 45 - 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.
Side 138 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
Side 90 - 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.