Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert BrowningFords, Howard & Hulbert, 1899 - 118 páginas |
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... simple and noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart and thou shalt repro- duce the Foreworld again . " Thy lot or portion of life , " said the Caliph Ali , " is seeking after thee ; therefore be at rest from seeking after it . " It is ...
... simple and noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart and thou shalt repro- duce the Foreworld again . " Thy lot or portion of life , " said the Caliph Ali , " is seeking after thee ; therefore be at rest from seeking after it . " It is ...
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... regulates events ; that our painful labors are unneces- sary and fruitless ; that only in our easy , simple , spontaneous action are we strong , and by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine . 32 " Don't Worry " Nuggets .
... regulates events ; that our painful labors are unneces- sary and fruitless ; that only in our easy , simple , spontaneous action are we strong , and by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine . 32 " Don't Worry " Nuggets .
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... All great actions have been simple . Because the soul is progressive , it never quite repeats itself , but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole . Essays : Second Series . FROM " THE POET . Emerson . 41.
... All great actions have been simple . Because the soul is progressive , it never quite repeats itself , but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole . Essays : Second Series . FROM " THE POET . Emerson . 41.
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... simple sense , And speak the speech of innocence , And with hand and body and blood , To make his bosom - counsel good . He that feeds men serveth few ; He serves all who dares be true . FROM " SAADI . " Seek nothing , -Fortune seeketh ...
... simple sense , And speak the speech of innocence , And with hand and body and blood , To make his bosom - counsel good . He that feeds men serveth few ; He serves all who dares be true . FROM " SAADI . " Seek nothing , -Fortune seeketh ...
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... simple human pity that will not forsake us . FROM " ROMOLA . " Our deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own will . Nay , children may be strangled , but deeds never ; they have an indestructible ...
... simple human pity that will not forsake us . FROM " ROMOLA . " Our deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own will . Nay , children may be strangled , but deeds never ; they have an indestructible ...
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.