Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert BrowningFords, Howard & Hulbert, 1899 - 118 páginas |
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... progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface differences . To the poet , to the philospher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men di ...
... progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface differences . To the poet , to the philospher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men di ...
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... progress , and not a station . I learn the wisdom of St. Bernard , - " Nothing can work me damage except my- self ; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me , and am never a real sufferer but by my own fault . " FROM " SPIRITUAL ...
... progress , and not a station . I learn the wisdom of St. Bernard , - " Nothing can work me damage except my- self ; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me , and am never a real sufferer but by my own fault . " FROM " SPIRITUAL ...
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... progress of the soul . The soul may be trusted to the end . FROM " FRIENDSHIP . " Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection . Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as 34 " Don't Worry " Nuggets .
... progress of the soul . The soul may be trusted to the end . FROM " FRIENDSHIP . " Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection . Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as 34 " Don't Worry " Nuggets .
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... shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical . The first contains the second , but virtual and latent . All our progress is an unfolding , like the vegetable Emerson . 39.
... shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical . The first contains the second , but virtual and latent . All our progress is an unfolding , like the vegetable Emerson . 39.
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... progress is through a succes- sion of teachers , each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence , but it at last gives place to a new . Frankly let him accept it all . Take thankfully and heartily all they can give ...
... progress is through a succes- sion of teachers , each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence , but it at last gives place to a new . Frankly let him accept it all . Take thankfully and heartily all they can give ...
Términos y frases comunes
47 East Tenth 50 cents 75 cents Art thou beauty better blame BOOK buds calamity choose conscious dare deeds divine duty earth East Tenth St EMERSON emotions endure EPICTETUS evil eyes faith fast fear feel Gathered by JEANNE GEORGE ELIOT gilt top give God's grow hand happiness hath heart heaven hinder HOWARD HULBERT human soul hurt JEANNE G keep lies life's light live look MADONNA man's mind mode nature naught ness never night NUGGETS obey opium ourselves pain past PENNINGTON philosophers PLATO poet prayer ROBERT BROWNING ROMOLA scorn seek serene smiles sorrow soul soul's spirit star STRADIVARIUS strength Strive strong sweet teach thee thine thou art thou hast thou wilt find thought thyself trust truth Venice wavelet whole Wilt thou wisdom word wouldst Zeus
Pasajes populares
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.