The Conduct of LifeHoughton, Mifflin, 1860 - 308 páginas |
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... means is fate ; organi- zation tyrannizing over character . The menagerie , or forms and powers of the spine , is a book of fate : the bill of the bird , the skull of the snake , determines tyran- nically its limits . So is the scale of ...
... means is fate ; organi- zation tyrannizing over character . The menagerie , or forms and powers of the spine , is a book of fate : the bill of the bird , the skull of the snake , determines tyran- nically its limits . So is the scale of ...
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... means became such in time . " To say it less sublimely , in the history of the individual is always an account of his condition , and he knows himself to be a party to his present es- tate . A good deal of our politics is physiological ...
... means became such in time . " To say it less sublimely , in the history of the individual is always an account of his condition , and he knows himself to be a party to his present es- tate . A good deal of our politics is physiological ...
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... means , if it be not the intimations in this infant of a terrific force . A text of heroism , a name and anecdote of courage , are not arguments , but sallies of freedom . One of these is the verse of the Per- sian Hafiz , " ' T is ...
... means , if it be not the intimations in this infant of a terrific force . A text of heroism , a name and anecdote of courage , are not arguments , but sallies of freedom . One of these is the verse of the Per- sian Hafiz , " ' T is ...
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... means let off and wasted . Could he lift pots and roofs and houses so handily ? he was the workman they were in search of . He could be used to lift away , chain , and compel other devils far more reluctant and dangerous , namely ...
... means let off and wasted . Could he lift pots and roofs and houses so handily ? he was the workman they were in search of . He could be used to lift away , chain , and compel other devils far more reluctant and dangerous , namely ...
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... means , reconciled . ― we are Fate involves the melioration . No statement of the Universe can have any soundness , which does not admit its ascending effort . The direction of the whole , and of the parts , is toward benefit , and in ...
... means , reconciled . ― we are Fate involves the melioration . No statement of the Universe can have any soundness , which does not admit its ascending effort . The direction of the whole , and of the parts , is toward benefit , and in ...
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Página 136 - No man can resist their influence. There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius. Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them, they solicit him to enter and possess.
Página 189 - There will be a new church founded on moral science, at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematics of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shawms, or psaltery, or sackbut ; but it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters ; science for symbol and illustration ; it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
Página 214 - He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Página 12 - Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman, but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.
Página 62 - The first is, the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points; as the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs. " Enlarge not thy destiny," said the oracle : " endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
Página 155 - I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty; that give the like exhilaration, and refine us like that; and, in memorable experiences, they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception, the acquaintance with real beauty. They must always show self-control: you shall not be facile, apologetic, or leaky, but king over your word; and every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest. Then they must be inspired...
Página 142 - Eyes are bold as lions, — roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no...
Página 135 - There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genins or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage.
Página 86 - ... legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.
Página 155 - If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunderstroke, I beseech you by all angels to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts, by corruption and groans.
Referencias a este libro
Uncommon Understanding: Development and Disorders of Language Comprehension ... Dorothy V. M. Bishop Vista previa limitada - 1997 |
The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier Richard G. Wilkinson Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |