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... keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude . — 10. The objection to conforming to usages that have be- come dead to you is , that it scatters your force . It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If ...
... keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude . — 10. The objection to conforming to usages that have be- come dead to you is , that it scatters your force . It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If ...
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... keep your head over your shoulder ? 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 ...
... keep your head over your shoulder ? 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 ...
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... keep things under his feet . Let him not peep or steal , or skulk up and down with the air of a charity - boy , a bastard , or an inter- loper , in the world which exists for him . But the man in the street , finding no worth in himself ...
... keep things under his feet . Let him not peep or steal , or skulk up and down with the air of a charity - boy , a bastard , or an inter- loper , in the world which exists for him . But the man in the street , finding no worth in himself ...
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... keep thy state ; stay at home in thine own heaven ; come not for a moment into their facts , into their hubbub of con- flicting appearances , but let in the light of thy law on their confusion . The power men possess to annoy me , I ...
... keep thy state ; stay at home in thine own heaven ; come not for a moment into their facts , into their hubbub of con- flicting appearances , but let in the light of thy law on their confusion . The power men possess to annoy me , I ...
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... keep its commandment one day . 32. And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity , and has ventured to trust himself for a task - master . High be his heart , faithful his will , clear his ...
... keep its commandment one day . 32. And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity , and has ventured to trust himself for a task - master . High be his heart , faithful his will , clear his ...
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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.