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... DESIRE OF FAME . But further , this desire of fame naturally betrays the ambitious man into such indecen- cies as are lessening to his reputation . He is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private , lest his ...
... DESIRE OF FAME . But further , this desire of fame naturally betrays the ambitious man into such indecen- cies as are lessening to his reputation . He is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private , lest his ...
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... desire to communicate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language . . . . But wise men pierce this rotten diction , and fasten words again to visible things ; so that picturesque language is A BOOK ...
... desire to communicate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language . . . . But wise men pierce this rotten diction , and fasten words again to visible things ; so that picturesque language is A BOOK ...
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... er soll ; und wenn er sagt , er kann nicht , so will er nicht . Fichte . DIFFICULTIES . C'est des difficultés que naissent des miracles . La Bruyère . DESIRE AND WILL . Affections , joy , grief , A BOOK OF GOLDEN THOUGHTS . 69.
... er soll ; und wenn er sagt , er kann nicht , so will er nicht . Fichte . DIFFICULTIES . C'est des difficultés que naissent des miracles . La Bruyère . DESIRE AND WILL . Affections , joy , grief , A BOOK OF GOLDEN THOUGHTS . 69.
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... desire is properly called Will , unless where reason and understanding prescribe the thing desired . Hooker . DESIRE AND WILL . Will , the active phenomenon , is a different thing from desire , the state of passive sensibility , and ...
... desire is properly called Will , unless where reason and understanding prescribe the thing desired . Hooker . DESIRE AND WILL . Will , the active phenomenon , is a different thing from desire , the state of passive sensibility , and ...
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... desire to get work done will itself lead one more and more to truth , to nature's appointments and regulations , which are truth . The latest gospel in the world is , know thy work , and do it . Carlyle . LABOUR AND THOUGHT . It is only ...
... desire to get work done will itself lead one more and more to truth , to nature's appointments and regulations , which are truth . The latest gospel in the world is , know thy work , and do it . Carlyle . LABOUR AND THOUGHT . It is only ...
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Page 117 - ... lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Page 91 - He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side ; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.
Page 59 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 128 - Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Page 124 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them.
Page 54 - But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things ; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
Page 65 - If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Page 174 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible ; «. e. form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.
Page 98 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.