EssaysJ. Munroe and Company, 1848 - 333 psl. |
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... constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is History , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed up- on ? " This life of ours is stuck round 8 ESSAY I.
... constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is History , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed up- on ? " This life of ours is stuck round 8 ESSAY I.
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... fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture ...
... fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture ...
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... ject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very seldom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a proper- - ty he has in literature , in all fable 26 ESSAY I.
... ject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very seldom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a proper- - ty he has in literature , in all fable 26 ESSAY I.
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... fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy , are ...
... fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy , are ...
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... fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half hunian . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the for- est , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave ...
... fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half hunian . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the for- est , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave ...
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81 psl. - 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. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
47 psl. - Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, 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.
41 psl. - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the 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 gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.
52 psl. - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
41 psl. - 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. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
52 psl. - Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?
69 psl. - ... professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to' Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
107 psl. - A great man is always willing to be little. Whilst he sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood ; he has gained facts ; learns his ignorance ; is cured of the insanity of conceit ; has got moderation and real skill.
63 psl. - Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.
68 psl. - If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers.