The Harvard Classics, Volume 5P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1909 - Literature |
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... party , town and country , nation and world , must also soar and sing . Of course , he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom . I will not shut myself out of this globe of action , and ...
... party , town and country , nation and world , must also soar and sing . Of course , he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom . I will not shut myself out of this globe of action , and ...
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... party , the section , to which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically , as the north , or the south ? Not so , brothers and friends , please God , ours shall not be so . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our ...
... party , the section , to which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically , as the north , or the south ? Not so , brothers and friends , please God , ours shall not be so . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our ...
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... party to any of these things . Custom does it for me , gives me no power therefrom , and runs me in debt to boot . We spend our incomes for paint and paper , for a hundred trifles , I know not what , and not for the things of a man ...
... party to any of these things . Custom does it for me , gives me no power therefrom , and runs me in debt to boot . We spend our incomes for paint and paper , for a hundred trifles , I know not what , and not for the things of a man ...
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... party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , -under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are . And of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life ...
... party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , -under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are . And of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life ...
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... party to which we adhere . We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying ex- perience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general ...
... party to which we adhere . We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying ex- perience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general ...
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Page 64 - 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 179 - These are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man, to his passage out into free space, and they help him to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up, and of that jail-yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed.
Page 112 - I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum. " The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled.
Page 10 - But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
Page 143 - A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light.
Page 14 - ... dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall not, sooner or later, lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean. Cradle and infancy, school and playground, the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries, and many another fact that once filled the whole sky, are gone already; friend...
Page 70 - 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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 232 - Here we find nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her. We have crept out of our close and crowded houses into the night and morning, and we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom.
Page 171 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With chearefull grace and amiable sight ; For of the soule the bodie forme doth take ; For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
Page 98 - All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure ; love for love. — Give, and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — What will you have ? quoth God ; pay for it and take it.