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... virtue . Crossing a bare common , in snow puddles , at twilight , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occur- rence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect ex- hilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear ...
... virtue . Crossing a bare common , in snow puddles , at twilight , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occur- rence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect ex- hilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear ...
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... virtue . Every natural action is graceful . Every heroic act is also decent , and causes the place and the bystanders to shine . We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it . Every rational ...
... virtue . Every natural action is graceful . Every heroic act is also decent , and causes the place and the bystanders to shine . We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it . Every rational ...
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... virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colours of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each ...
... virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colours of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each ...
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... virtue of preceding affections , in the world of spirit . A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit . The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world . " Material objects , " said a French philosopher ...
... virtue of preceding affections , in the world of spirit . A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit . The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world . " Material objects , " said a French philosopher ...
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... virtue , will purge the eyes to understand her text . By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature , so that the world shall be to us an open book , and every form significant of its hidden life ...
... virtue , will purge the eyes to understand her text . By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature , so that the world shall be to us an open book , and every form significant of its hidden life ...
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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.