EssaysJ. Munroe, 1841 - 303 pages |
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... wise man by 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 ...
... wise man by 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 ...
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... wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and all ...
... wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and all ...
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... wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described ...
... wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described ...
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... Jesus , and Lu- ther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . - I suppose no man can violate his nature . SELF - RELIANCE . 47.
... Jesus , and Lu- ther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . - I suppose no man can violate his nature . SELF - RELIANCE . 47.
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... wise man stays at home with the soul , and when his necessities , his duties , on any oc- casion call him from his house , or into foreign lands , he is at home still , and is not gadding abroad from himself , and shall make men ...
... wise man stays at home with the soul , and when his necessities , his duties , on any oc- casion call him from his house , or into foreign lands , he is at home still , and is not gadding abroad from himself , and shall make men ...
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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.