EmersonA.L. Humphreys, 1908 - 303 pages |
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... action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non - appearance on parade . Their works are done as an apology or ex- tenuation of their living in the world , -as invalids and the ...
... action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non - appearance on parade . Their works are done as an apology or ex- tenuation of their living in the world , -as invalids and the ...
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... actions . I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent . I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right . Few and mean as my gifts may be , I ...
... actions . I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent . I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right . Few and mean as my gifts may be , I ...
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... actions , and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . 2 There will be an agreement in what- ever variety of actions , so they be each honest and natural in their hour . For of one will , the actions will be harmoni ...
... actions , and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . 2 There will be an agreement in what- ever variety of actions , so they be each honest and natural in their hour . For of one will , the actions will be harmoni ...
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... action will ex- plain itself , and will explain your other genuine actions . Your conformity ex- plains nothing . Act singly , and what you have already done singly will justify you now . Greatness appeals to the future . If I can be ...
... action will ex- plain itself , and will explain your other genuine actions . Your conformity ex- plains nothing . Act singly , and what you have already done singly will justify you now . Greatness appeals to the future . If I can be ...
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... actions of kings to those of gentlemen . The world has been instructed by its kings , who have so magnetised the eyes of nations . It has been taught by this colossal symbol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man . The joyful ...
... actions of kings to those of gentlemen . The world has been instructed by its kings , who have so magnetised the eyes of nations . It has been taught by this colossal symbol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man . The joyful ...
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Page 10 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Page 15 - 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 5 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 19 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 6 - 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 201 - 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 57 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe ; the equinox he knows as little ; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.
Page 6 - 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.
Page 56 - As our religion, our education, our art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken.
Page 29 - We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.