A Book of Golden ThoughtsMacmillan & Company, 1870 - 288 páginas |
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Página 55
... facts , and is inflamed with passion , or exalted by thought , it clothes itself in images . A man conversing in earnest , if he watches his intellectual processes , will find that always a material image , more or less luminous ...
... facts , and is inflamed with passion , or exalted by thought , it clothes itself in images . A man conversing in earnest , if he watches his intellectual processes , will find that always a material image , more or less luminous ...
Página 70
... we desire it , we often desire it only because we will it . This , however , is but an instance of that familiar fact , the power of habit , and is nowise confined to the case of virtuous actions 70 A BOOK OF GOLDEN THOUGHTS .
... we desire it , we often desire it only because we will it . This , however , is but an instance of that familiar fact , the power of habit , and is nowise confined to the case of virtuous actions 70 A BOOK OF GOLDEN THOUGHTS .
Página 105
... fact , is the state needed for all mighty doing in this world . And there- fore , finally , for this , the weightiest of all reasons , let us take no pride in our knowledge . We may , in a certain sense , be proud of being immortal ; we ...
... fact , is the state needed for all mighty doing in this world . And there- fore , finally , for this , the weightiest of all reasons , let us take no pride in our knowledge . We may , in a certain sense , be proud of being immortal ; we ...
Página 111
... fact , they are so , will be very visible to every one who shall observe what passeth round about him . Bishop Butler . PHILOSOPHICAL DILETTANTISM . Dilettantism , hypothesis , speculation , a kind of amateur search for Truth , toying ...
... fact , they are so , will be very visible to every one who shall observe what passeth round about him . Bishop Butler . PHILOSOPHICAL DILETTANTISM . Dilettantism , hypothesis , speculation , a kind of amateur search for Truth , toying ...
Página 128
... fact that those who are equally capable of appreciating and enjoying both , de give a most marked preference to the manner of existence which employs their highest facul- ties . Few human beings would consent to be changed 128 A BOOK OF ...
... fact that those who are equally capable of appreciating and enjoying both , de give a most marked preference to the manner of existence which employs their highest facul- ties . Few human beings would consent to be changed 128 A BOOK OF ...
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Addison Antoninus authority autres Bacon beauty Bishop Butler BOOK BRILLIANT THOUGHTS Bruyère c'est Carlyle character Cicero Coleridge conscience Dieu discern divine doth DRESS Epictetus être faculty fait fault faut feeling FLATTERY friendship genius give Goethe grand habit happiness hath heart heaven hommes human ignorant imagination imitation IMMORTALITY intellect J. S. Mill James Martineau Jean Paul Richter Jeremy Collier Jeremy Taylor Joubert judgment justice knowledge l'âme l'esprit La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld learning live man's mankind mean mind MODESTY Montesquieu moral n'est nature naturel never noble object one's-self opinions ourselves passions pensée perfect Petit-Senn peut philosophy Plato pleasure Plutarch poetry praise qu'il qu'on quod reason religion Rochefoucauld Ruskin s'il Selected and arranged sense sentiment Sir William Hamilton soul tact Talent talk taste things Thomas Reid thou tion tout true truth understanding vanity Vauvenargues vice virtue Wahrheit words
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Página 117 - ... lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Página 91 - He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side ; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.
Página 59 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 128 - Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Página 124 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them.
Página 54 - But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things ; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
Página 65 - If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Página 174 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible ; «. e. form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.
Página 98 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.