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Page 13
... passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforth to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constellation of it to hang in HISTORY . 13.
... passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforth to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constellation of it to hang in HISTORY . 13.
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... passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our ...
... passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our ...
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... 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 body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of ...
... 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 body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of ...
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... passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart pre- cisely as they meet mine . Then ...
... passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart pre- cisely as they meet mine . Then ...
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... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles ...
... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles ...
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Page 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.
Page 38 - 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 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.
Page 42 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil.
Page 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 67 - 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 195 - ... counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love.
Page 45 - 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.
Page 138 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 90 - Some damning circumstance always transpires. The laws and substances of nature water, snow, wind, gravitation - become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.