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... thought to have reaped large profits from his many commercial and industrial activities . He told the French Chamber that upon taking office during the war he had insisted upon handing over to the French Government the whole of his war ...
... thought to have reaped large profits from his many commercial and industrial activities . He told the French Chamber that upon taking office during the war he had insisted upon handing over to the French Government the whole of his war ...
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... thought is somewhat tainted with disillusion and scepticism that the greatest words in the language lose their splendour : they are used , not strongly and with faith , but with a smile which is half a sneer . And the word ' idealism ...
... thought is somewhat tainted with disillusion and scepticism that the greatest words in the language lose their splendour : they are used , not strongly and with faith , but with a smile which is half a sneer . And the word ' idealism ...
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... thought . What use would there be in reading , in teaching , in training the mind , if all this only led to a better appreciation of falsehood ? The thought is impossible . And yet , since this kind of superficial . playing with words ...
... thought . What use would there be in reading , in teaching , in training the mind , if all this only led to a better appreciation of falsehood ? The thought is impossible . And yet , since this kind of superficial . playing with words ...
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... thought by meeting and countering their every argument . Only so can the way be opened to practical achievement , for in all spheres of life thought must come before right action . It is only necessary to establish firmly and for all ...
... thought by meeting and countering their every argument . Only so can the way be opened to practical achievement , for in all spheres of life thought must come before right action . It is only necessary to establish firmly and for all ...
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... thought . Faith - i.e . , The spiritual intelligent or supernor- mal world . Religion conscious- ness of the unseen . Theology Reflection , Records ( really a comparison , branch of and intui- philosophy ) tion . of religions and ...
... thought . Faith - i.e . , The spiritual intelligent or supernor- mal world . Religion conscious- ness of the unseen . Theology Reflection , Records ( really a comparison , branch of and intui- philosophy ) tion . of religions and ...
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Page 263 - I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination — What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not...
Page 269 - She dwells with Beauty — Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine...
Page 268 - In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind: Far, far around shall those dark-cluster'd trees Fledge the wild-ridged mountains steep by steep ; And there by zephyrs...
Page 145 - For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? "For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Page 268 - With buds, and bells, and stars without a name, With all the gardener Fancy e'er could feign, Who breeding flowers, will never breed the same: And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!
Page 258 - Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main...
Page 281 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled And still his...
Page 581 - Ne'er tell me of glories serenely adorning The close of our day, the calm eve of our night : — Give me back, give me back the wild freshness of Morning, Her clouds and her tears are worth Evening's best light.
Page 419 - France is alone; and God is alone; and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my God? I see now that the loneliness of God is His strength: what would He be if He listened to your jealous little counsels? Well, my loneliness shall be my strength too: it is better to be alone with God: His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength I will dare, and dare, and dare, until I die.
Page 283 - As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely through all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best...