Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. |
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Side 43
... explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation to Are they my put all poor men in good situations SELF - RELIANCE . 43.
... explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation to Are they my put all poor men in good situations SELF - RELIANCE . 43.
Side 53
... seek to pry into the soul that causes , -all metaphysics , all philosophy is at fault . Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm . Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind , and his involuntary perceptions . And ...
... seek to pry into the soul that causes , -all metaphysics , all philosophy is at fault . Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm . Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind , and his involuntary perceptions . And ...
Side 54
... seek to interpose helps . It must be that when God speaketh , he should communi- cate not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the centre of the ...
... seek to interpose helps . It must be that when God speaketh , he should communi- cate not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the centre of the ...
Side 59
... I must be myself . I cannot break myself any longer for you , or you . If you can love me for what I am , we shall be the happier . If you cannot , I will still seek to deserve that you should . I must be myself . I SELF - RELIANCE . 59.
... I must be myself . I cannot break myself any longer for you , or you . If you can love me for what I am , we shall be the happier . If you cannot , I will still seek to deserve that you should . I must be myself . I SELF - RELIANCE . 59.
Side 60
... seek my own . I do this not selfishly , but humbly and truly . It is alike your interest and mine and all men's however long we have dwelt in lies , to live in truth . Does this sound harsh to day ? You will soon love what is dictated ...
... seek my own . I do this not selfishly , but humbly and truly . It is alike your interest and mine and all men's however long we have dwelt in lies , to live in truth . Does this sound harsh to day ? You will soon love what is dictated ...
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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.