A Book of Golden ThoughtsMacmillan & Company, 1870 - 288 páginas |
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Página 57
... imagination than to your memory . Coleridge . MUSIC . Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings . Addison . MUSICAL WORDING OF SENTENCES ...
... imagination than to your memory . Coleridge . MUSIC . Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings . Addison . MUSICAL WORDING OF SENTENCES ...
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... IMAGINATION WITHOUT TASTE . Es ist Nichts fürchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack . Goethe . IMAGINATION WITHOUT LEARNING . Celui qui a de l'imagination sans érudition a des ailes et n'a pas de pieds . Joubert . OBSTINACY OF ...
... IMAGINATION WITHOUT TASTE . Es ist Nichts fürchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack . Goethe . IMAGINATION WITHOUT LEARNING . Celui qui a de l'imagination sans érudition a des ailes et n'a pas de pieds . Joubert . OBSTINACY OF ...
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... imagination . Du reste , renversant , détruisant , foulant aux pieds tout ce que les hommes respectent , ils ôtent aux affligés la dernière consolation de leur misère , aux puissants et aux riches le seul frein de leurs passions ; ils ...
... imagination . Du reste , renversant , détruisant , foulant aux pieds tout ce que les hommes respectent , ils ôtent aux affligés la dernière consolation de leur misère , aux puissants et aux riches le seul frein de leurs passions ; ils ...
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... IMAGINATION AN INSTRUMENT OF RESEARCH . The influence of the imagination as an instru- ment of research has , we think , been much overlooked by those who have ventured to give laws to philosophy . This faculty is of the greatest value ...
... IMAGINATION AN INSTRUMENT OF RESEARCH . The influence of the imagination as an instru- ment of research has , we think , been much overlooked by those who have ventured to give laws to philosophy . This faculty is of the greatest value ...
Página 149
... imagination against the entrance of every unhallowed intruder , and invite more amiable and worthier guests to dwell ! There shall the Muses , the Graces , and the Virtues fix their abode : for everything that is great and worthy in ...
... imagination against the entrance of every unhallowed intruder , and invite more amiable and worthier guests to dwell ! There shall the Muses , the Graces , and the Virtues fix their abode : for everything that is great and worthy in ...
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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.