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... line with the poles of the world . 27. A man cannot speak but he judges himself . With his will , or against his will , he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word . Every opinion reacts on him who utters it . It is ...
... line with the poles of the world . 27. A man cannot speak but he judges himself . With his will , or against his will , he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word . Every opinion reacts on him who utters it . It is ...
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... line for line , deed for deed , cent for cent , to somebody . Be- ware of too much good staying in your hand . It will fast corrupt and worm worms . Pay it away quickly in some sort . 34. Labor is watched over by the same pitiless laws ...
... line for line , deed for deed , cent for cent , to somebody . Be- ware of too much good staying in your hand . It will fast corrupt and worm worms . Pay it away quickly in some sort . 34. Labor is watched over by the same pitiless laws ...
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... lines , let the subject be what it may . The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart , is true for all men ...
... lines , let the subject be what it may . The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart , is true for all men ...
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... line of a hundred tacks . This is only micro- scopic criticism . See the line from a sufficient distance , and it straightens itself to the average tendency . Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genu- ine ...
... line of a hundred tacks . This is only micro- scopic criticism . See the line from a sufficient distance , and it straightens itself to the average tendency . Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genu- ine ...
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... line . Here are associations whose ties go over , and under , and through it , a meeting of merchants , a military corps , a 8. What is the derivation of the word aristocracy ? Of what qualities in men are aristocracy and fashion ...
... line . Here are associations whose ties go over , and under , and through it , a meeting of merchants , a military corps , a 8. What is the derivation of the word aristocracy ? Of what qualities in men are aristocracy and fashion ...
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Page 20 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Page 73 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die,...
Page 76 - IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Page 12 - 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 11 - 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 77 - The delicate shells lay on the shore; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Page 26 - ... centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, -means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now. and absorbs past and future into the present hour.
Page 83 - Twas one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow, The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm; Or south, it still is clear; Or east, it smells like a clover-farm; Or west, no thunder fear.
Page 19 - Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
Page 77 - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, they sang to my eye.