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... thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preėxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and ...
... thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preėxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and ...
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... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall . be a private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age ...
... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall . be a private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age ...
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... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , 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 ...
... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , 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 ...
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... thought , and far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius ...
... thought , and far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius ...
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... thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep ...
... thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep ...
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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.