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... sense . They are not self- discriminating . This is why primitive peoples are so sorely smitten - why they are oppressed with the vast or majestic or strange . They have not ceased to follow their simple reflexes . To sort out to put ...
... sense . They are not self- discriminating . This is why primitive peoples are so sorely smitten - why they are oppressed with the vast or majestic or strange . They have not ceased to follow their simple reflexes . To sort out to put ...
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... sense , it must be understood to be the directest avenue of ap- proach of the human spirit to the spirit nature of all being . A balance of judgment , as a function of the higher cerebral activities , is always of service ; yet the ...
... sense , it must be understood to be the directest avenue of ap- proach of the human spirit to the spirit nature of all being . A balance of judgment , as a function of the higher cerebral activities , is always of service ; yet the ...
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... sense that the prenatal life is a shut - in life . As long as the black cloth hangs over the nose of the camera the sensitive plate does not record impressions . Each child born is held by certain elements of truth as in a matrix , like ...
... sense that the prenatal life is a shut - in life . As long as the black cloth hangs over the nose of the camera the sensitive plate does not record impressions . Each child born is held by certain elements of truth as in a matrix , like ...
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... senses are alert to get the best life has for us . We take pride in being alive to whatever is going on . As the years come and go we make the best possible use of expe- rience , and we expect confidently to get wiser as we get older ...
... senses are alert to get the best life has for us . We take pride in being alive to whatever is going on . As the years come and go we make the best possible use of expe- rience , and we expect confidently to get wiser as we get older ...
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... sense of the divine sets in . Victor Hugo , above all that the world knows of his phosphorescent brain , fairly writhed in the agony of pent - up fires which were never brought to a blaze . He was sure that he had never ex- pressed the ...
... sense of the divine sets in . Victor Hugo , above all that the world knows of his phosphorescent brain , fairly writhed in the agony of pent - up fires which were never brought to a blaze . He was sure that he had never ex- pressed the ...
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Page 146 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
Page 146 - Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
Page 143 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 291 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps; fire and hail; snow and vapor; stormy wind fulfilling his word; mountains and all hills; fruitful trees and all cedars; beasts and all cattle; creeping things and flying fowl...
Page 153 - Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars; Beasts and all cattle; creeping things and flying fowl; Kings of the earth and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth. Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children. Let them praise the name of the Lord; for His name alone is excellent; His glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 278 - If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high.
Page 169 - And I looked upon the true sea —the sea that plays with men till their hearts are broken, and wears stout ships to death. Nothing can touch the brooding bitterness of its soul. Open to all and faithful to none, it exercises its fascination for the undoing of the best. To love it is not well.
Page 321 - Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Page 143 - T is not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding flowers, Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone, Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings.
Page 34 - slow study,' and sit for a long while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought, there is the only method: macerate your subject, let it boil slow, then take the lid off and look in — and there your stuff is — good or bad.