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... Form .. 291 293 Rhyme and Rhythm .. 293-300 Metre ... Prose - poems 293 294 Greatness .. 295 Kinds of Greatness .. 296 Self - Respect .. 296 The Paths to Real Greatness .. 297 Scintillations of Greatness .. 298 Rarity of Pure Greatness ...
... Form .. 291 293 Rhyme and Rhythm .. 293-300 Metre ... Prose - poems 293 294 Greatness .. 295 Kinds of Greatness .. 296 Self - Respect .. 296 The Paths to Real Greatness .. 297 Scintillations of Greatness .. 298 Rarity of Pure Greatness ...
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... form of some ancient Argive . " And Shakspeare , in ' King John , ' does but recall to me myself in the dress of another age , the sport of new accidents . I who am Charles was sometime Romeo . In Hamlet I pondered and doubted . We ...
... form of some ancient Argive . " And Shakspeare , in ' King John , ' does but recall to me myself in the dress of another age , the sport of new accidents . I who am Charles was sometime Romeo . In Hamlet I pondered and doubted . We ...
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... form , and giving it boundless freedom and horizon . Then after the oscillation , more or less protracted as the mind has been more or less forcibly pushed from its place , I fall again into my orbit and recognize myself , and find with ...
... form , and giving it boundless freedom and horizon . Then after the oscillation , more or less protracted as the mind has been more or less forcibly pushed from its place , I fall again into my orbit and recognize myself , and find with ...
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... forms of philosophy to good purpose , even though he received low marks for his formal recitations . He was also the poet of his class upon " Class - Day . " Still , his general standing was little if any above the middle of his class ...
... forms of philosophy to good purpose , even though he received low marks for his formal recitations . He was also the poet of his class upon " Class - Day . " Still , his general standing was little if any above the middle of his class ...
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... form of administering it . In his view the rite was never instituted by Jesus as a per- manent one for his followers through the ages ; and whatever of usefulness it may have had in the olden time , this had passed away ; and for him at ...
... form of administering it . In his view the rite was never instituted by Jesus as a per- manent one for his followers through the ages ; and whatever of usefulness it may have had in the olden time , this had passed away ; and for him at ...
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Page 323 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Page 121 - I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty,/ in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
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 175 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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 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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
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 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 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 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?