Essays, First SeriesJ. Munroe, 1850 - 333 pages |
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... true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history , in the ...
... true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history , in the ...
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... true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in dis- course . He hears the commendation , not of him- self , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning ...
... true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in dis- course . He hears the commendation , not of him- self , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning ...
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... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in ...
... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in ...
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... true , and Biogra- phy deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the no ...
... true , and Biogra- phy deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the no ...
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... true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dot- ted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer ...
... true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dot- ted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer ...
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Page 43 - 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 connection of events.
Page 246 - The Supreme Critic on fhe errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere ; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other...
Page 248 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison — but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Page 294 - The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why ; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful ; it is by abandonment. The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. " A man," said Oliver Cromwell, " never...
Page 312 - God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets test, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Page 39 - 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 108 - I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
Page 277 - The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Page 249 - God comes to see us without bell: " that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God.
Page 61 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them.