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... True , should we receive what befalls us or them who stand near us . " وو This , at first sight , would seem to set aside that great law of Duty , that " stern daughter of the voice of God , " which is , as Wordsworth sings , in one of ...
... True , should we receive what befalls us or them who stand near us . " وو This , at first sight , would seem to set aside that great law of Duty , that " stern daughter of the voice of God , " which is , as Wordsworth sings , in one of ...
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... true check of this principle is to be found in another general law— that each is to serve his fellow - men in that way he best The olive is not bound to leave yielding his fruit , and go and reign over the trees ; neither is the astron ...
... true check of this principle is to be found in another general law— that each is to serve his fellow - men in that way he best The olive is not bound to leave yielding his fruit , and go and reign over the trees ; neither is the astron ...
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... true worship was transferred from God to Christ , or that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an individual worship was given nowhere . The service does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act , but is imposed by ...
... true worship was transferred from God to Christ , or that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an individual worship was given nowhere . The service does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act , but is imposed by ...
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... true commem- ation . " Impelled by these and such like considerations , Emerson had proposed to the brethren of his con- gregation that the use of bread and wine , and all claim by authority , should be dropped from the administration ...
... true commem- ation . " Impelled by these and such like considerations , Emerson had proposed to the brethren of his con- gregation that the use of bread and wine , and all claim by authority , should be dropped from the administration ...
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... true ; but it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone , than to love the good for itself alone . ' He himself knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well , because he had once been a Unitarian , and knew what quackery ...
... true ; but it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone , than to love the good for itself alone . ' He himself knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well , because he had once been a Unitarian , and knew what quackery ...
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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?