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Página 33
... wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother , nor soil my gentle nest . I only wish to in- dicate the true position of nature in regard to man , wherein to establish man , all right education tends ; as the ground which to attain is the ...
... wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother , nor soil my gentle nest . I only wish to in- dicate the true position of nature in regard to man , wherein to establish man , all right education tends ; as the ground which to attain is the ...
Página 73
... wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope . The office is the first in the world . It is of that reality that it cannot suffer the deduction of any falsehood . And it is my duty to say to you , that the need was never ...
... wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope . The office is the first in the world . It is of that reality that it cannot suffer the deduction of any falsehood . And it is my duty to say to you , that the need was never ...
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... wishes of those who love us , shall impair our freedom , but we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness , and appeal to sympathies far in advance ; and what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful element a ...
... wishes of those who love us , shall impair our freedom , but we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness , and appeal to sympathies far in advance ; and what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful element a ...
Página 94
... wish the scholar to replace to them those private , sincere , divine ex- periences , of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street . It is the noble , manlike , just thought , which is the superiority demanded of you , and ...
... wish the scholar to replace to them those private , sincere , divine ex- periences , of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street . It is the noble , manlike , just thought , which is the superiority demanded of you , and ...
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... wish to look with sour aspect at the industri- ous manufacturing village , or the mart of commerce . I love the music of the water - wheel ; I value the railway ; I feel the pride which the sight of a ship inspires ; I look on trade and ...
... wish to look with sour aspect at the industri- ous manufacturing village , or the mart of commerce . I love the music of the water - wheel ; I value the railway ; I feel the pride which the sight of a ship inspires ; I look on trade and ...
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action Æsop antinomianism appear astronomy beauty behold better character church comes conservatism conversation divine earth Emanuel Swedenborg Epaminondas eternal exist experience fact faculties faith fear feel force genius gifts give Goethe hand heart heaven Heraclitus hope hour human ical individual intel intellect labor light ligion live look man's manner marriage means mind moral Napoleon nature never noble objects Parliament of Love party pass perfect persons Phidias Pindar plant Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry present prudence reform relations religion rich Rome scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars sublime talent thee things thou thought tion to-day Transcendentalist true truth universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth Zoroaster
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Página 16 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and...
Página 247 - Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Página 35 - I was there ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth ; when he established the clouds above ; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep ; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Página 9 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Página 247 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or [his; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Página 245 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genins.
Página 66 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
Página 264 - For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under.
Página 245 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
Página 74 - Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world.