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... seek a level from their loftiest tossing , than the varieties of condi- tion tend to equalize themselves . There is always some leveling circumstance that puts down the overbearing , the strong , the rich , the fortunate , substantially ...
... seek a level from their loftiest tossing , than the varieties of condi- tion tend to equalize themselves . There is always some leveling circumstance that puts down the overbearing , the strong , the rich , the fortunate , substantially ...
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... seek to be great ; they would have offices , wealth , 17. Explain : We seek to act partially . thing be good for one's character ? one to avoid it or to pursue it ? 18. How is the soul " the only fact " ? How may a difficult Is pleasure ...
... seek to be great ; they would have offices , wealth , 17. Explain : We seek to act partially . thing be good for one's character ? one to avoid it or to pursue it ? 18. How is the soul " the only fact " ? How may a difficult Is pleasure ...
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... seek to separate them from the whole . ] We can no more halve things and get the sensual good by itself , than we can get an inside that shall have no outside , or a light without a shadow . " Drive out nature with a fork , she comes ...
... seek to separate them from the whole . ] We can no more halve things and get the sensual good by itself , than we can get an inside that shall have no outside , or a light without a shadow . " Drive out nature with a fork , she comes ...
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... seek mine ; there is war between us ; there is hate in him and fear in me . 30. All the old abuses in society , the great and universal and the petty and particular , all unjust accumulations of property and power , are avenged in the ...
... seek mine ; there is war between us ; there is hate in him and fear in me . 30. All the old abuses in society , the great and universal and the petty and particular , all unjust accumulations of property and power , are avenged in the ...
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... seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations . Are they my poor ? I tell thee , thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the ...
... seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations . Are they my poor ? I tell thee , thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the ...
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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.