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... genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , -the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be ...
... genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , -the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be ...
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... genius since the world began ; from the era of the Egyptians and the Brahmins , to that of Pythagoras , of Plato , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the road - side , and from age to age , as each prophet ...
... genius since the world began ; from the era of the Egyptians and the Brahmins , to that of Pythagoras , of Plato , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the road - side , and from age to age , as each prophet ...
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... genius fear and hate ; debt , which consumes so much time , which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone , and is needed most by those who suffer from it ...
... genius fear and hate ; debt , which consumes so much time , which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone , and is needed most by those who suffer from it ...
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... genius or method of nature , let us go back to man . It is true , he pretends to give account of himself to himself , but , at last , what has he to recite but the fact that there is a Life not to be The Method of Nature 45.
... genius or method of nature , let us go back to man . It is true , he pretends to give account of himself to himself , but , at last , what has he to recite but the fact that there is a Life not to be The Method of Nature 45.
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... genius , there is success , or there is not . There is the incoming or the reced- ing of God , that is all we can affirm ; and we can show neither how nor why . Self - accusation , remorse , and the didactic morals of self - denial and ...
... genius , there is success , or there is not . There is the incoming or the reced- ing of God , that is all we can affirm ; and we can show neither how nor why . Self - accusation , remorse , and the didactic morals of self - denial and ...
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Page 4 - Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Page 80 - But to return to our own institute: besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be. won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 85 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 82 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 79 - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 26 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 70 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Page 14 - A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that a material image more or less luminous arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought. Hence, good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation. It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made.
Page 82 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth ; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Page 283 - HE who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.