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Strana 15
... truth seems to have fashioned a brain for itself . A magnet must be made man in some Gilbert , or Swedenborg , or Oersted , before the general mind can come to entertain its powers . If we limit ourselves to the first advantages , a ...
... truth seems to have fashioned a brain for itself . A magnet must be made man in some Gilbert , or Swedenborg , or Oersted , before the general mind can come to entertain its powers . If we limit ourselves to the first advantages , a ...
Strana 19
... truth , that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal , as to dissemble . " We cannot read Plutarch without a tingling of the blood ; and I accept the saying of the Chinese Mencius : " A sage is the instructor of a hundred ...
... truth , that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal , as to dissemble . " We cannot read Plutarch without a tingling of the blood ; and I accept the saying of the Chinese Mencius : " A sage is the instructor of a hundred ...
Strana 22
... truth and to being . " Foremost among these activities are the summersaults , spells and resurrections wrought by the imagination . When this wakes , a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force . It opens the ...
... truth and to being . " Foremost among these activities are the summersaults , spells and resurrections wrought by the imagination . When this wakes , a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force . It opens the ...
Strana 25
... er us With looks of beauty and words of good . " How to illustrate the distinctive benefit of ideas , the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind ? I am plagued , USES OF GREAT MEN . 25.
... er us With looks of beauty and words of good . " How to illustrate the distinctive benefit of ideas , the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind ? I am plagued , USES OF GREAT MEN . 25.
Strana 26
Ralph Waldo Emerson. truths into the general mind ? I am plagued , ― in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices . If I work in my garden and prune an apple - tree , I am well enough entertained , and could continue indefinitely ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. truths into the general mind ? I am plagued , ― in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices . If I work in my garden and prune an apple - tree , I am well enough entertained , and could continue indefinitely ...
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Strana 12 - I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty ; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
Strana 12 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Strana 86 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Strana 49 - Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
Strana 226 - ... for creation. We are always in peril, always in a bad plight, just on the edge of destruction and only to be saved by invention and courage. This vigor was guarded and tempered by the coldest prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage, but the result of calculation. His idea of the best defence consists in being still the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was...
Strana 189 - It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it ; and of him who can adequately place it.
Strana 197 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Strana 160 - The Essays, therefore, are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into his head ; treating everything without ceremony, yet with masculine sense. There have been men with deeper insight ; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance of thoughts : he is never dull, never insincere, and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for.
Strana 156 - Essays. I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakespeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne. It is the only book which we certainly know to have been in the poet's library.
Strana 152 - Let us have a robust, manly life ; let us know what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid and seasonable and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with real men and women, and not with skipping ghosts.