Essays, orations and lecturesW. Tegg & Company, 1848 - 385 pages |
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... come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have always , from time to time , walked among men , and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence ...
... come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have always , from time to time , walked among men , and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence ...
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... comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Esop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the ...
... comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Esop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the ...
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... come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or ... comes of a higher race remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
... come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or ... comes of a higher race remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
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... , but from it rather . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , come much nearer to these - understand them better than the dissector or the antiquary . 25 SELF - RELIANCE . Ne te quæsiveris extra . 24 ESSAYS .
... , but from it rather . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , come much nearer to these - understand them better than the dissector or the antiquary . 25 SELF - RELIANCE . Ne te quæsiveris extra . 24 ESSAYS .
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... is his . In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting D lesson for us than this . They teach us to SELF-RELIANCE.
... is his . In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting D lesson for us than this . They teach us to SELF-RELIANCE.
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Page 32 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 26 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.
Page 27 - Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Page 33 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 156 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 69 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Page 1 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Page 28 - ... what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul...
Page 60 - The mind now thinks, now acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness — he has always the resource to live.
Page 30 - 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. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.