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... looks thousands , has the responsibility of overlooking . With every influx of light , comes new danger . Has he light ? he must bear witness to the light , and always outrun that sym- pathy which gives him such keen satisfaction , by ...
... looks thousands , has the responsibility of overlooking . With every influx of light , comes new danger . Has he light ? he must bear witness to the light , and always outrun that sym- pathy which gives him such keen satisfaction , by ...
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... looks like a multiplication - table or a mathematical equation , which , turn it how you will , balances itself . Take what figure you will , its exact value , nor more nor less , still returns to you . Every secret is told , every ...
... looks like a multiplication - table or a mathematical equation , which , turn it how you will , balances itself . Take what figure you will , its exact value , nor more nor less , still returns to you . Every secret is told , every ...
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... looks out and justifies her own , and malice finds all her work vain . It is the whipper who is whipped , and the tyrant who is undone . 42. Thus do all things preach the indifferency of circum- stances . The man is all . Everything has ...
... looks out and justifies her own , and malice finds all her work vain . It is the whipper who is whipped , and the tyrant who is undone . 42. Thus do all things preach the indifferency of circum- stances . The man is all . Everything has ...
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... Look at those who have less faculty , and one feels sad , and knows not well what to make of it . Almost he shuns their eye ; almost he fears they will up- braid God . What should they do ? It seems a great injus- tice . But face the ...
... Look at those who have less faculty , and one feels sad , and knows not well what to make of it . Almost he shuns their eye ; almost he fears they will up- braid God . What should they do ? It seems a great injus- tice . But face the ...
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... look backwards . 50. And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also , after long intervals of time . A fever , a mutilation , a cruel disappointment , a loss of wealth , a loss of friends , seems at ...
... look backwards . 50. And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also , after long intervals of time . A fever , a mutilation , a cruel disappointment , a loss of wealth , a loss of friends , seems at ...
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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.