Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 - 290 pages |
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... feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the ...
... feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the ...
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... feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of ...
... feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of ...
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... feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or Oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the ...
... feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or Oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the ...
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... feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine , fir , and spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a ...
... feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine , fir , and spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a ...
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... feel in Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? What but this , that every man passes ...
... feel in Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? What but this , that every man passes ...
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Page 215 - ... of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
Page 214 - ... that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other...
Page 282 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Page 58 - 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 269 - 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 rest, commodity, and reputation; but ho shuts the door of truth.
Page 216 - God comes to see us without bell:" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God.
Page 96 - Always some damning circumstance transpires. The laws and substances of nature, water, snow, wind, gravitation, become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns...
Page 58 - ... notion. They fancy that I choose to see this or that thing. But perception is not whimsical, but fatal. If I see a trait, my children will see it after me, and in course of time all mankind, — although it may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun.' The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
Page 59 - But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
Page 72 - 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.