Speeches by Oliver Wendell HolmesLittle, Brown, 1896 - 69 páginas |
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... reach the rewards of victory . - When it was felt so deeply as it was on both sides that a man ought to take part in the war unless some con- scientious scruple or strong practical reason made it im- possible , was that feeling simply ...
... reach the rewards of victory . - When it was felt so deeply as it was on both sides that a man ought to take part in the war unless some con- scientious scruple or strong practical reason made it im- possible , was that feeling simply ...
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... reach him , or can I kill him first ? These and the thousand other events we have known are called up , I say , by ac- cident , and , apart from accident , they lie forgotten . But as surely as this day comes round we are in the ...
... reach him , or can I kill him first ? These and the thousand other events we have known are called up , I say , by ac- cident , and , apart from accident , they lie forgotten . But as surely as this day comes round we are in the ...
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... reach my own spiritual possibilities through such a door as this ? How can the laborious study of a dry and technical sys- tem , the greedy watch for clients and practice of shop- keepers ' arts , the mannerless conflicts over often ...
... reach my own spiritual possibilities through such a door as this ? How can the laborious study of a dry and technical sys- tem , the greedy watch for clients and practice of shop- keepers ' arts , the mannerless conflicts over often ...
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... reach . In saying this , I point to that which will make your study heroic . For I say to you in all sad- ness of conviction , that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists . Only when you have worked alone , when ...
... reach . In saying this , I point to that which will make your study heroic . For I say to you in all sad- ness of conviction , that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists . Only when you have worked alone , when ...
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... reach the same result under the illusion of self - seeking . If the love of honor is a form of that illusion , it is no ignoble one . If it does not lift a man on wings to the sky , at least it carries him above the earth and teaches ...
... reach the same result under the illusion of self - seeking . If the love of honor is a form of that illusion , it is no ignoble one . If it does not lift a man on wings to the sky , at least it carries him above the earth and teaches ...
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Página 10 - But, when the days of golden dreams had perished, And even Despair was powerless to destroy; Then did I learn how existence could be cherished, Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.
Página 10 - Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten Down to that tomb already more than mine. And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain ; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
Página 3 - I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Página 23 - If your subject is law, the roads are plain to anthropology, the science of man, to political economy, the theory of legislation, ethics, and thus by several paths to your final view of life.
Página 61 - Not of the sunlight, Not of the moonlight, Not of the starlight ! O young Mariner, Down to the haven, Call your companions, Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, Follow The Gleam.
Página 68 - But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.
Página 25 - Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought— the...
Página 62 - War, when you are at it, is horrible and dull. It is only when time has passed that you see that its message was divine. I hope it may be long before we are called again to sit at that master's feet. But some teacher of the kind we all need. In this snug, over-safe corner of the world we need it, that we may realize that our comfortable routine is no...
Página 24 - For I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only, when you have worked alone — when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man — and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will, then only you will have achieved.