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... object of his thought . The movement of his sentences is slow , but with a rich , deep music audible to the inner ear of the reader . Bacon's chief works for the English student are The Advancement of Learning , The His- tory of Henry ...
... object of his thought . The movement of his sentences is slow , but with a rich , deep music audible to the inner ear of the reader . Bacon's chief works for the English student are The Advancement of Learning , The His- tory of Henry ...
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... object , perhaps he is short - sighted , and has to take out his glass to look at it . There is a feeling in the air , a tone in the color of a cloud which hits your fancy , but the effect of which you are unable to account for . There ...
... object , perhaps he is short - sighted , and has to take out his glass to look at it . There is a feeling in the air , a tone in the color of a cloud which hits your fancy , but the effect of which you are unable to account for . There ...
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... objects and circumstances that present themselves before you- these may recall a number of objects and lead to associa- tions too delicate and refined to be possibly communi- cated to others . Yet these I love to cherish , and some ...
... objects and circumstances that present themselves before you- these may recall a number of objects and lead to associa- tions too delicate and refined to be possibly communi- cated to others . Yet these I love to cherish , and some ...
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... objects and passing events . In his ignorance of me and my affairs , I in a manner forget myself . But a friend reminds one of other things , rips up old grievances , and destroys the abstraction of the scene . He comes in ungraciously ...
... objects and passing events . In his ignorance of me and my affairs , I in a manner forget myself . But a friend reminds one of other things , rips up old grievances , and destroys the abstraction of the scene . He comes in ungraciously ...
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... objects of curiosity and wonder even to ourselves . We are no more those hackneyed commonplaces that we appear in the world ; an inn re- stores us to the level of nature , and quits scores with society ! I have certainly spent some ...
... objects of curiosity and wonder even to ourselves . We are no more those hackneyed commonplaces that we appear in the world ; an inn re- stores us to the level of nature , and quits scores with society ! I have certainly spent some ...
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Page 2 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 72 - 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 123 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Page 124 - ... because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise Designation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
Page 89 - 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 64 - Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page 140 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Page 67 - 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 65 - 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 130 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...