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... heart beat , those giant sinews combat and conquer . He lives for us , and we live in him . Men such as they are , very naturally seek money or power ; and power because it is as good as money , the " spoils , " so called , " of office ...
... heart beat , those giant sinews combat and conquer . He lives for us , and we live in him . Men such as they are , very naturally seek money or power ; and power because it is as good as money , the " spoils , " so called , " of office ...
Página 66
... heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue . Then he is instructed in what is above him . He learns that his being is without bound ; that , to the good , to the perfect , he is born , low as he now lies in evil and weakness . That ...
... heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue . Then he is instructed in what is above him . He learns that his being is without bound ; that , to the good , to the perfect , he is born , low as he now lies in evil and weakness . That ...
Página 65
... heart with its welcome shade . Through the transpar- ent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays . under them seems a young child , and his huge globe a toy . The cool night bathes the world as with a river , and prepares ...
... heart with its welcome shade . Through the transpar- ent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays . under them seems a young child , and his huge globe a toy . The cool night bathes the world as with a river , and prepares ...
Página 66
... heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue . Then he is instructed in what is above him . He learns that his being is without bound ; that , to the good , to the perfect , he is born , low as he now lies in evil and weakness . That ...
... heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue . Then he is instructed in what is above him . He learns that his being is without bound ; that , to the good , to the perfect , he is born , low as he now lies in evil and weakness . That ...
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... heart . Thus was he a true man . Having seen that the law in us is commanding , he would not suffer it to be commanded . Boldly , with hand , and heart , and life , he declared it was God . Thus is he , as I think , the only soul in ...
... heart . Thus was he a true man . Having seen that the law in us is commanding , he would not suffer it to be commanded . Boldly , with hand , and heart , and life , he declared it was God . Thus is he , as I think , the only soul in ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
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.