Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysC. Scribner, 1864 - 344 pages |
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Page 61
... individuality , the mind seems to have little choice as to what it will receive . Then , indeed , it does reject much seed that falls upon it , and much fails to take root because of the pre - occupation of the surface . A sensual seed ...
... individuality , the mind seems to have little choice as to what it will receive . Then , indeed , it does reject much seed that falls upon it , and much fails to take root because of the pre - occupation of the surface . A sensual seed ...
Page 87
... individuality , and all love and expression of beauty , and all vivifying , liberalizing , and humanizing experience ? I owe no grudge to the Shakers . I like their ap- ple - sauce , ( they ask a thrifty price for it , ) and have faith ...
... individuality , and all love and expression of beauty , and all vivifying , liberalizing , and humanizing experience ? I owe no grudge to the Shakers . I like their ap- ple - sauce , ( they ask a thrifty price for it , ) and have faith ...
Page 296
... individuality under the curbing and controlling hands of others — to make the notions of the world the law and limit of one's liberty , and to square every word and every act by arbitrary rules imposed by cliques and customs . A man who ...
... individuality under the curbing and controlling hands of others — to make the notions of the world the law and limit of one's liberty , and to square every word and every act by arbitrary rules imposed by cliques and customs . A man who ...
Page 297
... individuality is all gone , and the humanity in him becomes as characterless as its expression . Every utterance of his life is made with a well - measured ref- erence to certain standards to which he is an acknowl- edged slave . A ...
... individuality is all gone , and the humanity in him becomes as characterless as its expression . Every utterance of his life is made with a well - measured ref- erence to certain standards to which he is an acknowl- edged slave . A ...
Page 300
... individuality , no qualities that would distinguish me no weaknesses that would furnish footholds for human sympathy ... individuality ; where there is no individuality there is no true humanity ; where there 300 Leffons in Life .
... individuality , no qualities that would distinguish me no weaknesses that would furnish footholds for human sympathy ... individuality ; where there is no individuality there is no true humanity ; where there 300 Leffons in Life .
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Page 18 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 182 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 170 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 25 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Page 182 - It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done...
Page 98 - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never can'st thou kiss, Though winning near the goal - yet do not grieve: She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss...
Page 261 - My stubborn right abide ; I set a plain man's common sense Against the pedant's pride. To-day shall simple manhood try The strength of gold and land ; The wide world has not wealth to buy The power in my right hand...
Page 169 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 9 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Page 220 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.