Pearls of ThoughtHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 284 sider |
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Side 42
... perfect without a stingy bargain for per- sonal happiness . It taught that to love him was hap- piness , to love him in others ' virtues . Emerson . - Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows CHR CHR 42.
... perfect without a stingy bargain for per- sonal happiness . It taught that to love him was hap- piness , to love him in others ' virtues . Emerson . - Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows CHR CHR 42.
Side 44
... Emerson . Commander . - - The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature like an inheritance ; it is the fruit of labors , the price of courage . Voltaire . - The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world ...
... Emerson . Commander . - - The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature like an inheritance ; it is the fruit of labors , the price of courage . Voltaire . - The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world ...
Side 55
... Emerson . Custom doth make dotards of us all . - - Carlyle . ____ Cynics . It will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature , and affect to despise it , are among its worst and least pleasant samples ...
... Emerson . Custom doth make dotards of us all . - - Carlyle . ____ Cynics . It will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature , and affect to despise it , are among its worst and least pleasant samples ...
Side 61
... steer , and dare not hoist a sail , we can drift . The current knows the way , though we do not . The ship of heaven guides itself , and will not accept a wooden rudder . - Emerson . - - Desire . — It is easier to suppress the DEL DEP 61.
... steer , and dare not hoist a sail , we can drift . The current knows the way , though we do not . The ship of heaven guides itself , and will not accept a wooden rudder . - Emerson . - - Desire . — It is easier to suppress the DEL DEP 61.
Side 65
... Emerson . - Dignity . It is at once the thinnest and most effective of all the coverings under which duncedom sneaks and skulks . Most of the men of dignity , who awe or bore their more genial brethren , are simply men who possess the ...
... Emerson . - Dignity . It is at once the thinnest and most effective of all the coverings under which duncedom sneaks and skulks . Most of the men of dignity , who awe or bore their more genial brethren , are simply men who possess the ...
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action Addison Alfred de Musset Arsène Houssaye Bacon beautiful Beecher better Bulwer-Lytton Burke Byron Carlyle Chapin Charles Buxton Coleridge Colton conscience death divine Douglas Jerrold Dryden earth Emerson everything evil eyes fear feel Feltham flowers fools fortune friends genius George Eliot George Herbert George MacDonald give glory Goethe gold Goldsmith hand happiness hath heart heaven Heinrich Heine honor hope human Jeremy Collier Jeremy Taylor Johnson Joubert kind knowledge labor light live look Macaulay Madame Swetchine man's mankind Mazzini Milton mind Molière Montaigne moral nature ness never noble pain passions Petit Senn pleasure poet poetry Pope reason religion Richter ruin Ruskin Samuel Smiles sense Shake Shakespeare Smiles sorrow soul speare sweet Sydney Smith tears things Thoreau thou thought tion true truth vice virtue Voltaire wisdom wise woman words