EssaysJ. Munroe, 1841 - 303 pages |
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... drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours ...
... drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours ...
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... draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , - but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature , and can then draw him at will ...
... draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , - but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature , and can then draw him at will ...
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... draws us because we are Greeks . It is a state through which every man in some sort passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the ...
... draws us because we are Greeks . It is a state through which every man in some sort passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the ...
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... draw to- day the face of a person whom he shall see to - mor- row for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts ...
... draw to- day the face of a person whom he shall see to - mor- row for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts ...
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... your table like base housekeepers , under all these screens , I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are . And , of course , so much force is with- - drawn from your proper life . But do your thing 44 ESSAY II .
... your table like base housekeepers , under all these screens , I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are . And , of course , so much force is with- - drawn from your proper life . But do your thing 44 ESSAY II .
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Page 42 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." 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.
Page 35 - 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 68 - 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.
Page 44 - 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.
Page 166 - It makes no difference how many friends I have and what content I can find in conversing with each, if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
Page 40 - Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself.
Page 73 - A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Page 11 - Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Page 37 - 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 43 - Then, aguin, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor ? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.