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... seen , or dreamt of , by far the most miraculous is this age in this hour ; and who with all these devout beliefs has dared , like a va- liant man , to bid chimeras , " Be chimerical ; dis- appear , and let us have an end of you ...
... seen , or dreamt of , by far the most miraculous is this age in this hour ; and who with all these devout beliefs has dared , like a va- liant man , to bid chimeras , " Be chimerical ; dis- appear , and let us have an end of you ...
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... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their prin- ciple of association . Some men classify objects . by colour and size and other accidents of appear- ance ; others by intrinsic ...
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their prin- ciple of association . Some men classify objects . by colour and size and other accidents of appear- ance ; others by intrinsic ...
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... seen the head of an old sachem of the forest , which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendour as ...
... seen the head of an old sachem of the forest , which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendour as ...
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... seen without heed . Let me add a few examples , such as fall within the scope of every man's observation , of trivial facts which go to illustrate great and conspicu- ous facts . A lady , with whom I was riding in the fo- rest , said to ...
... seen without heed . Let me add a few examples , such as fall within the scope of every man's observation , of trivial facts which go to illustrate great and conspicu- ous facts . A lady , with whom I was riding in the fo- rest , said to ...
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... seen in the sky a chain of sum- mer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which ...
... seen in the sky a chain of sum- mer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which ...
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Page 43 - 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 54 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 86 - 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.
Page 57 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 63 - Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work; but the things of life are the same to both; the sum total of both is the same. Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue? As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed their public and renowned steps.
Page 69 - When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
Page 49 - ... interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this.
Page 49 - The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
Page 45 - 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 125 - ... seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and of no settled character, in which the man is imprisoned. Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday. And such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.