EssaysJames Fraser, 1841 - 371 pages |
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Page 45
... highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato , and Milton , is that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that Yet he dismisses with- because it is ...
... highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato , and Milton , is that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that Yet he dismisses with- because it is ...
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... highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but redeemers and benefactors , pious aspirants to be noble clay plastic under the Almighty effort , let us advance and ...
... highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but redeemers and benefactors , pious aspirants to be noble clay plastic under the Almighty effort , let us advance and ...
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... highest truth on this subject remains unsaid , probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off re- membering of the intuition . That thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you ...
... highest truth on this subject remains unsaid , probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off re- membering of the intuition . That thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you ...
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... highest to its trivial passages , is the various record of this power . Thus all concentrates : let us not rove ; let us sit at home with the cause . Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a ...
... highest to its trivial passages , is the various record of this power . Thus all concentrates : let us not rove ; let us sit at home with the cause . Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a ...
Page 78
... highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronoun- cing his works good . But prayer as a means to effect a private end , is theft and meanness . It supposes dualism and not ...
... highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronoun- cing his works good . But prayer as a means to effect a private end , is theft and meanness . It supposes dualism and not ...
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Page 43 - 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.
Page 54 - 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.
Page 86 - 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.
Page 57 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 63 - Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work; but the things of life are the same to both; the sum total of both is the same. Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue? As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed their public and renowned steps.
Page 69 - When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
Page 49 - ... interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this.
Page 49 - The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
Page 45 - 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.
Page 125 - ... seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and of no settled character, in which the man is imprisoned. Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday. And such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.