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... less perfect for being little . Eyes , ears , taste , smell , motion , resistance , appetite , and organs of reproduction that take hold on eter- nity , - all find room to consist in the small creature . do we put our life into every ...
... less perfect for being little . Eyes , ears , taste , smell , motion , resistance , appetite , and organs of reproduction that take hold on eter- nity , - all find room to consist in the small creature . do we put our life into every ...
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... less , still returns to you . Every secret is told , every crime is punished , every virtue rewarded , every wrong redressed , in silence and certainty . What we call retribution , is the universal necessity by which the whole appears ...
... less , still returns to you . Every secret is told , every crime is punished , every virtue rewarded , every wrong redressed , in silence and certainty . What we call retribution , is the universal necessity by which the whole appears ...
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... less . Who doth not - 24. Which definition of proverbs do you prefer ? to be accepted without qualification ? Illustrate . - — Ought proverbs 25. In how many ways has E. expressed the thought of this para- graph in preceding paragraph ...
... less . Who doth not - 24. Which definition of proverbs do you prefer ? to be accepted without qualification ? Illustrate . - — Ought proverbs 25. In how many ways has E. expressed the thought of this para- graph in preceding paragraph ...
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... less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states , in the laws of light and darkness , in all the action and reaction of nature . I cannot doubt that the high laws which each man sees ever implicated in those ...
... less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states , in the laws of light and darkness , in all the action and reaction of nature . I cannot doubt that the high laws which each man sees ever implicated in those ...
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... less " in applica- tion to man , always of the presence of the soul , and not of its absence ; the brave man is greater than the coward ; the true , the benevolent , the wise , is more a man and not less , than the fool and knave ...
... less " in applica- tion to man , always of the presence of the soul , and not of its absence ; the brave man is greater than the coward ; the true , the benevolent , the wise , is more a man and not less , than the fool and knave ...
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Página 38 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Página 96 - Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being...
Página 93 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die,...
Página 33 - Go love thy infant; love thy woodchopper; be good-natured and modest; have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.
Página 58 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Página 30 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Página 29 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion...
Página 35 - 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.
Página 44 - ... centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. 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.
Página 37 - Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.