Hammersmith: His Harvard Days

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Osgood and Company, 1878 - 524 Seiten
 

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Seite 177 - ... to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy.
Seite 177 - ... and attach us to life, to be permitted to live with those who have the same principles as ourselves. But now thou seest how great is the trouble arising from the discordance of those who live together, so that thou mayst say, Come quick, O death, lest perchance I, too, should forget myself.
Seite 377 - One who surpasses his fellow-citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself." Thoreau was sincerity itself, and might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living. It was an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside. A truth-speaker he, capable of the most deep and strict conversation ; a physician to the...
Seite 177 - It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
Seite 177 - And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgement now. But if anything in thy own disposition gives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion?
Seite 172 - Who gave me the goods that went since? Who raised me the house that sank once? Who helped me to gold I spent since? Who found me in wine you drank once? (Chorus') King Charles, and who'll do htm right now? King Charles, and who 's rife for fight noivf Give a rouse: here 's, in Hell's despite ч aw, King Charles!
Seite 342 - twas a very wicked thing!" said little Wilhelmine. "Nay... nay... my little girl," quoth he, "it was a famous victory. And everybody praised the Duke who this great fight did win." "But what good came of it at last?" quoth little Peterkin. "Why that I cannot tell," said he, "but 'twas a famous victory.
Seite 253 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not, realities and creators, but names and customs.
Seite 195 - We are all of us very weak, and exposed to many evils from within and from without ; and every man finds that he hath enough to do to govern his own spirit and to bear his own burden. Let us not add to it by offence and mutual provocation of one another. It may be, did we but know and were acquainted with the condition of others, we ourselves would think it very hard measure to add to their sorrow, and we would rather help to bear their burdens.
Seite 78 - Feelings come and go like light troops following the victory of the present; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed and stand fast.

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