Essays: First SeriesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 333 sider |
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Side 5
... secret experience , or we shall learn nothing right- ly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depra- vations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning ...
... secret experience , or we shall learn nothing right- ly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depra- vations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning ...
Side 27
... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dot- ted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer ...
... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dot- ted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer ...
Side 31
... secret virtues of minerals , of understand- ing the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prow- ess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the ...
... secret virtues of minerals , of understand- ing the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prow- ess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the ...
Side 69
... secret of fortune is joy Welcome evermore to gods and men in our hands . ' s the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him and ...
... secret of fortune is joy Welcome evermore to gods and men in our hands . ' s the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him and ...
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... secret is told , eve- ry crime is punished , every virtue rewarded , every wrong redressed , in silence and certainty . What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears . If you see ...
... secret is told , eve- ry crime is punished , every virtue rewarded , every wrong redressed , in silence and certainty . What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears . If you see ...
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Side 307 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Side 46 - I will go to prison, if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold.
Side 329 - Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful.
Side 241 - The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
Side 105 - I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
Side 103 - Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing...
Side 65 - And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a task-master. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others.
Side 97 - All things are double, one against another. - Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love. - Give and it shall be given you. - He that watereth shall be watered himself. - What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.
Side 273 - The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end.
Side 62 - This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame; confounds the saint with the rogue ; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.