Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert BrowningFords, Howard & Hulbert, 1899 - 118 páginas |
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... trust and commit thy- self . Wilt thou not remember this too , or wilt thou dishonor thy charge ? If God had committed some orphan child to thee , wouldst thou have neglected it ? Now he hath given thee to thyself , and saith : " I had ...
... trust and commit thy- self . Wilt thou not remember this too , or wilt thou dishonor thy charge ? If God had committed some orphan child to thee , wouldst thou have neglected it ? Now he hath given thee to thyself , and saith : " I had ...
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... Trust thyself . Accept the place the di- vine providence has found for you , the so- ciety of your contemporaries , the connection of events . No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature . I do not wish to expiate , but to live ...
... Trust thyself . Accept the place the di- vine providence has found for you , the so- ciety of your contemporaries , the connection of events . No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature . I do not wish to expiate , but to live ...
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... trust that what is deep is holy , that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart appoints . With the exercise of self - trust , new powers Emerson . 27.
... trust that what is deep is holy , that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart appoints . With the exercise of self - trust , new powers Emerson . 27.
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... trust , new powers shall appear . I have my own stern claims and perfect circle . It denies the name of duty to many offices that are called duties . But if I can discharge its debts it enables me to dispense with the popular code . If ...
... trust , new powers shall appear . I have my own stern claims and perfect circle . It denies the name of duty to many offices that are called duties . But if I can discharge its debts it enables me to dispense with the popular code . If ...
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... trust is the essence of heroism . speaks the truth and it is just , generous , hospitable , temperate , scornful of petty cal- culations and scornful of being scorned . It persists ; it is of an undaunted boldness and of a fortitude not ...
... trust is the essence of heroism . speaks the truth and it is just , generous , hospitable , temperate , scornful of petty cal- culations and scornful of being scorned . It persists ; it is of an undaunted boldness and of a fortitude not ...
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.