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... heart , Of the rich inherent worth , Of the grace that on him shone Of eloquent lips and joyful wit . He could not frame a word unfit , An act unworthy to be done . Honor prompted every glance , Honor came and sat beside him , In lowly ...
... heart , Of the rich inherent worth , Of the grace that on him shone Of eloquent lips and joyful wit . He could not frame a word unfit , An act unworthy to be done . Honor prompted every glance , Honor came and sat beside him , In lowly ...
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... heart . " He also showed decided talent for composition and declamation , and in his junior year gained the first prize for an essay upon the " Character of Socrates , " and in his senior year the second prize for an essay upon 99 " The ...
... heart . " He also showed decided talent for composition and declamation , and in his junior year gained the first prize for an essay upon the " Character of Socrates , " and in his senior year the second prize for an essay upon 99 " The ...
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... heart . Having said this , I have said all . I have no hostility to this institution ; I am only stating my want of sympathy with it . Neither should I have ever obtruded this opin- ion upon other people , had I not been called by my ...
... heart . Having said this , I have said all . I have no hostility to this institution ; I am only stating my want of sympathy with it . Neither should I have ever obtruded this opin- ion upon other people , had I not been called by my ...
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... heart that worships him — then , indeed , are we united ; we are mutually debtors to each other of faith and hope , engaged to confirm each other's hearts in obedience to the gospel . We shall not feel that the nominal changes and ...
... heart that worships him — then , indeed , are we united ; we are mutually debtors to each other of faith and hope , engaged to confirm each other's hearts in obedience to the gospel . We shall not feel that the nominal changes and ...
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... heart . Carlyle was a man from his youth ; an author who did not need to hide from his readers ; and as absolute a man of the world , unknown and exiled on that hill - farm , as if holding on his own terms what was best in London , " He ...
... heart . Carlyle was a man from his youth ; an author who did not need to hide from his readers ; and as absolute a man of the world , unknown and exiled on that hill - farm , as if holding on his own terms what was best in London , " He ...
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Page 172 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Page 174 - Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you ; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 94 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
Page 309 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
Page 153 - We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.
Page 100 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Page 120 - Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
Page 159 - Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
Page 118 - When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; — before it, the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane; the sea behind; and the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture? Does not the New World clothe his form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?
Page 175 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.