Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. |
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Side 12
... stoic or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each man his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise man . All books , monuments , pictures , con- versation , are ...
... stoic or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each man his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise man . All books , monuments , pictures , con- versation , are ...
Side 62
... stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self- trust , new powers shall appear ; that a man is the word made flesh ...
... stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self- trust , new powers shall appear ; that a man is the word made flesh ...
Side 69
... stoic was a stoic ; but in Christendom where is the Christian ? There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk . No greater men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed ...
... stoic was a stoic ; but in Christendom where is the Christian ? There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk . No greater men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed ...
Side 104
... stoics . We side with the hero , as we read or paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that coward and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs ...
... stoics . We side with the hero , as we read or paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that coward and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs ...
Side 127
... stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love . But from these formidable censors I shall appeal to my seniors . For , it is to be considered that this passion of which we speak , though it begin with the young , yet ...
... stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love . But from these formidable censors I shall appeal to my seniors . For , it is to be considered that this passion of which we speak , though it begin with the young , yet ...
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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.