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23 28 ACTION — see Purpose , Speech , Training , Truth . Given the love and the
wisdom , life ' s code of action follows . A . Bronson Alcott : Table Talk . II .
Enterprise . Socrates ' Prayer . Action is but coarseneil thought , – thought
become ...
23 28 ACTION — see Purpose , Speech , Training , Truth . Given the love and the
wisdom , life ' s code of action follows . A . Bronson Alcott : Table Talk . II .
Enterprise . Socrates ' Prayer . Action is but coarseneil thought , – thought
become ...
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... them anew by his own mode of generalization , and only availing himself of the
minds of others for the purpose of rendering more full and complete the
realization of that idea of truth or beauty which has its conception in his own mind
.
... them anew by his own mode of generalization , and only availing himself of the
minds of others for the purpose of rendering more full and complete the
realization of that idea of truth or beauty which has its conception in his own mind
.
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A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his
pastor says so , or the assembly so determines , without knowing other reason ,
though his belief be true , yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy .
A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his
pastor says so , or the assembly so determines , without knowing other reason ,
though his belief be true , yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy .
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( Yonge , Translator . ) It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent
book ( and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton ) is
like a well - chosen and well - tended fruittree . Its fruits are not of one season
only .
( Yonge , Translator . ) It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent
book ( and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton ) is
like a well - chosen and well - tended fruittree . Its fruits are not of one season
only .
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It is true , no age can restore a life whereof , perhaps , there is no great loss ; and
revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth , for the want of
which whole nations fare the worse . We should be wary , therefore , what ...
It is true , no age can restore a life whereof , perhaps , there is no great loss ; and
revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth , for the want of
which whole nations fare the worse . We should be wary , therefore , what ...
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| Title | A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient Sources The Astor prose series |
| Editor | Anna Lydia Ward |
| Publisher | T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1889 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 701 pages |
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