A Book of Golden ThoughtsMacmillan & Company, 1870 - 288 páginas |
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Página 110
... . It is impossible , from the nature and circum- stances of human - kind , that the multitude should be philosophers , or that they should know any things in their causes . We see every day that IIO A BOOK OF GOLDEN THOUGHTS .
... . It is impossible , from the nature and circum- stances of human - kind , that the multitude should be philosophers , or that they should know any things in their causes . We see every day that IIO A BOOK OF GOLDEN THOUGHTS .
Página 111
... kind of amateur search for Truth , toying and coquet- ting with Truth : this is the sorest sin - the root of all other imaginable sins . It consists in the heart and soul of the man never having 66 been open to Truth ; - " living in A ...
... kind of amateur search for Truth , toying and coquet- ting with Truth : this is the sorest sin - the root of all other imaginable sins . It consists in the heart and soul of the man never having 66 been open to Truth ; - " living in A ...
Página 121
... kind . See , there are two snails : one hath a house ; the other wants it . Yet , both are snails and it is a question whether case is the better ; that which hath a house hath more shelter , but that which wants it hath more freedom ...
... kind . See , there are two snails : one hath a house ; the other wants it . Yet , both are snails and it is a question whether case is the better ; that which hath a house hath more shelter , but that which wants it hath more freedom ...
Página 134
... kind evolves are formed in the same unconscious way . They are the aggregate result of countless single wills , each of which , thinking merely of its own end , and perhaps fully gaining it , is at the same time enlisted by Providence ...
... kind evolves are formed in the same unconscious way . They are the aggregate result of countless single wills , each of which , thinking merely of its own end , and perhaps fully gaining it , is at the same time enlisted by Providence ...
Página 168
... kind of knowledge except by a like process . We must fall on our knees at the threshold ; or we shall not gain entrance into the temple . 1 U. SELF - KNOWLEDGE . In order likewise to come at a true know- ledge of ourselves , we should ...
... kind of knowledge except by a like process . We must fall on our knees at the threshold ; or we shall not gain entrance into the temple . 1 U. SELF - KNOWLEDGE . In order likewise to come at a true know- ledge of ourselves , we should ...
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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.