Twelve EssaysG. Slater, 1849 - 261 sider |
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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 43 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it.
Side 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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 51 - Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation of Luther; Quakerism of Fox; Methodism of Wesley; Abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest...
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 63 - Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason.
Side 38 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
Side 138 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
Side 92 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Side 69 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.