Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions, Reasonably Good-natvred, Concerning how to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to OthersThe Roycrofters, 1906 - 149 pages |
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... soul never blossoms ; and this is what it is to lose one's soul . All adown the centuries thinking men have noted these truths , and again and again we find individuals forsaking in horror the life of the senses and devoting themselves ...
... soul never blossoms ; and this is what it is to lose one's soul . All adown the centuries thinking men have noted these truths , and again and again we find individuals forsaking in horror the life of the senses and devoting themselves ...
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... souls a hunger for beauty , just as there is physical hunger . Beauty speaks to their spirits through the senses ; but Tolstoy would have your house barren to the verge of hardship . My veneration for Count Tolstoy is profound , yet I ...
... souls a hunger for beauty , just as there is physical hunger . Beauty speaks to their spirits through the senses ; but Tolstoy would have your house barren to the verge of hardship . My veneration for Count Tolstoy is profound , yet I ...
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... soul knows all things , and knowledge is only a remembering , " says Emerson . This seems a very broad statement ; and yet the fact remains that the vast majority of men know a thousand times as much as they are aware of . Far down in ...
... soul knows all things , and knowledge is only a remembering , " says Emerson . This seems a very broad statement ; and yet the fact remains that the vast majority of men know a thousand times as much as they are aware of . Far down in ...
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... soul for an hour , and it seems to him as if barely five minutes had passed , so rapt is he in his exalted theme . When you reach the heights of sublimity and are expressing your highest and best , you are in a partial trance condition ...
... soul for an hour , and it seems to him as if barely five minutes had passed , so rapt is he in his exalted theme . When you reach the heights of sublimity and are expressing your highest and best , you are in a partial trance condition ...
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... souls saved - no pay . The basic element of the revival is hypnotism . The scheme of bringing about the hypnosis , or the obfuscation of the intellect , has taken generations to carefully perfect . The plan is first to depress the ...
... souls saved - no pay . The basic element of the revival is hypnotism . The scheme of bringing about the hypnosis , or the obfuscation of the intellect , has taken generations to carefully perfect . The plan is first to depress the ...
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