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Strana 17
... wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ! VOL . IV ...
... wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ! VOL . IV ...
Strana 26
... wish . I go to a con- vention of philanthropists . Do what I can , I cannot keep my eyes off the clock . But if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties , of Caro- lina or Cuba , but who ...
... wish . I go to a con- vention of philanthropists . Do what I can , I cannot keep my eyes off the clock . But if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties , of Caro- lina or Cuba , but who ...
Strana 27
... wish to be first . It is our system ; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets , envies and hatreds of his competitors . But in these new fields there is room : here are no self - esteems , no exclusions . 99 I I admire ...
... wish to be first . It is our system ; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets , envies and hatreds of his competitors . But in these new fields there is room : here are no self - esteems , no exclusions . 99 I I admire ...
Strana 31
... wishes one son a genius , though all the rest should be mediocre . But a new danger appears in the ex- cess of influence of the great man . His attractions warp us from our place . We have become under- lings and intellectual suicides ...
... wishes one son a genius , though all the rest should be mediocre . But a new danger appears in the ex- cess of influence of the great man . His attractions warp us from our place . We have become under- lings and intellectual suicides ...
Strana 32
... wishes every thing to remain itself ; and whilst every individual strives to grow and ex- clude and to exclude and grow , to the extremities of the universe , and to impose the law of its being on every other creature , Nature steadily ...
... wishes every thing to remain itself ; and whilst every individual strives to grow and ex- clude and to exclude and grow , to the extremities of the universe , and to impose the law of its being on every other creature , Nature steadily ...
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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.