A Book of Golden ThoughtsMacmillan & Company, 1870 - 288 páginas |
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... understandings can not fully reach and comprehend . Tillotson . RIGHT ADMIRATION . Learn to admire rightly ; the great pleasure of life is that . Note what the great men ad- mired ; they admired great things : narrow spirits admire ...
... understandings can not fully reach and comprehend . Tillotson . RIGHT ADMIRATION . Learn to admire rightly ; the great pleasure of life is that . Note what the great men ad- mired ; they admired great things : narrow spirits admire ...
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... understanding of the wisest , and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment . Bacon . WORDS AND THINGS . A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol , and so utter it , depends on the simplicity of his character , that ...
... understanding of the wisest , and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment . Bacon . WORDS AND THINGS . A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol , and so utter it , depends on the simplicity of his character , that ...
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... understanding prescribe the thing desired . Hooker . DESIRE AND WILL . Will , the active phenomenon , is a different thing from desire , the state of passive sensibility , and though originally an offshoot from it , may in time take ...
... understanding prescribe the thing desired . Hooker . DESIRE AND WILL . Will , the active phenomenon , is a different thing from desire , the state of passive sensibility , and though originally an offshoot from it , may in time take ...
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... de S Pierre . PRE - EMINENCE OF THE SOUL " OVER THE 66 INTELLECT . " And now observe , the first important con- sequence of our fully understanding this : pre - eminence of the soul will be the 104 A BOOK OF GOLDEN THOUGHTS .
... de S Pierre . PRE - EMINENCE OF THE SOUL " OVER THE 66 INTELLECT . " And now observe , the first important con- sequence of our fully understanding this : pre - eminence of the soul will be the 104 A BOOK OF GOLDEN THOUGHTS .
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Henry Attwell. : pre - eminence of the soul will be the due understanding of that subordination of know- ledge respecting which so much has been said . For it must be felt at once , that the increase of knowledge , merely as such , does ...
Henry Attwell. : pre - eminence of the soul will be the due understanding of that subordination of know- ledge respecting which so much has been said . For it must be felt at once , that the increase of knowledge , merely as such , does ...
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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.