Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert BrowningFords, Howard & Hulbert, 1899 - 118 páginas |
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... once both a steadfast and tranquil mind , and also care- fulness of things ? Take example of dice- players : the numbers are indifferent , the dice are indifferent . How can I tell what may be thrown up ? But carefully and skillfully to ...
... once both a steadfast and tranquil mind , and also care- fulness of things ? Take example of dice- players : the numbers are indifferent , the dice are indifferent . How can I tell what may be thrown up ? But carefully and skillfully to ...
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Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert Browning. But be at once careful , because the use of things is not indifferent , and steadfast and tranquil because the things themselves are so . For where there is aught that ...
Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert Browning. But be at once careful , because the use of things is not indifferent , and steadfast and tranquil because the things themselves are so . For where there is aught that ...
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... once for all , seek the essence of the Good . But thou art a supreme object , thou art a piece of God , thou hast in thee something that is a portion of him . Why , then , art thou ignorant of thy high ancestry ? Nay , but in thyself ...
... once for all , seek the essence of the Good . But thou art a supreme object , thou art a piece of God , thou hast in thee something that is a portion of him . Why , then , art thou ignorant of thy high ancestry ? Nay , but in thyself ...
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... once come up with a man's limitations , it is all over with him . Has he talents ? Has he enterprise ? Has he knowledge ? It boots not . Infinitely allur- ing and attractive was he to you yesterday , a great hope , a sea to swim in ...
... once come up with a man's limitations , it is all over with him . Has he talents ? Has he enterprise ? Has he knowledge ? It boots not . Infinitely allur- ing and attractive was he to you yesterday , a great hope , a sea to swim in ...
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... once received ; as with all minds in which mere perception predomi- nates over thought and emotion , the external remained to him rigidly what it was in the first instance . Maggie's heart went out toward this wo- man whom she had never ...
... once received ; as with all minds in which mere perception predomi- nates over thought and emotion , the external remained to him rigidly what it was in the first instance . Maggie's heart went out toward this wo- man whom she had never ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 100 - Truth is within ourselves ; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness ; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception — which is truth.
Página 74 - This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Página 118 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 99 - I go to prove my soul ! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive ! what time, what circuit first, I ask not : but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive : He guides me and the bird. In his good time ! Mich.
Página 95 - Fool ! All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure: What entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be: Time's wheel runs back or stops : Potter and clay endure.
Página 27 - 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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 29 - 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 26 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
Página 91 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist ; Not its semblance but itself; no beauty, nor good nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Página 31 - There is a deeper fact in the soul than compensation, to wit, its own nature. The soul is not a compensation, but a life. The soul is.