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... thought is presided over by a certain reason , too . Their extravagance from nature is yet within a higher nature . They seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of thought not familiar to the waking experience . They pique us by ...
... thought is presided over by a certain reason , too . Their extravagance from nature is yet within a higher nature . They seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of thought not familiar to the waking experience . They pique us by ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. ing that every act , every thought , every cause , is bi- polar , and in the act is contained the counteraction . If I strike , I am struck ; if I chase , I am pursued . Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. ing that every act , every thought , every cause , is bi- polar , and in the act is contained the counteraction . If I strike , I am struck ; if I chase , I am pursued . Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in ...
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... thought , I like day- light , and I find somewhat wilful , some play at blindman's - buff , when men as wise as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological . The insinua- tion is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are ...
... thought , I like day- light , and I find somewhat wilful , some play at blindman's - buff , when men as wise as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological . The insinua- tion is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are ...
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... thought . That makes the beautiful scorn , the elegant simplicity , the di- rectness , the commanding port which all men admire and which men not noble affect . For the thought has no debts , no hunger , no lusts , no low obligations or ...
... thought . That makes the beautiful scorn , the elegant simplicity , the di- rectness , the commanding port which all men admire and which men not noble affect . For the thought has no debts , no hunger , no lusts , no low obligations or ...
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... thought that will not sometime embody itself in the form of a friend . That highest good of rational existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances . One trait more we must celebrate , the self- reliance which is the patent ...
... thought that will not sometime embody itself in the form of a friend . That highest good of rational existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances . One trait more we must celebrate , the self- reliance which is the patent ...
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Página 96 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 98 - Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, " 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 230 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Página 142 - ... lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Página 449 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them." "The locust z-ing." "Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook." "Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
Página 444 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before ; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Página 151 - A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to apply it ; an automaton, a machine, can be made to keep a school so. It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost. Our modes of Education aim to expedite, to save labor ; to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one : say rather, the whole...
Página 373 - England, and marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity. I have found that I could only bring you this portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place.
Página 336 - I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too.
Página 352 - If the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers, Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists, Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers, — all came successively to the top and seized their moment, if not their hour, wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.