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... wise friend objected to the title that ' A Man's Thoughts ' was somewhat egotistical . Why so it is doubtful ; since an author , small though he may be , is at least a man , and as for egotism he shows no more- or needs to show no more ...
... wise friend objected to the title that ' A Man's Thoughts ' was somewhat egotistical . Why so it is doubtful ; since an author , small though he may be , is at least a man , and as for egotism he shows no more- or needs to show no more ...
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... wise unless we con- quer it . We must go out of self to judge self , or we shall be ever bewitched by toys and gewgaws , and made blind in our own despite . When Maria , in the ' Twelfth Night ' of Shakspeare , wishes to punish Malvolio ...
... wise unless we con- quer it . We must go out of self to judge self , or we shall be ever bewitched by toys and gewgaws , and made blind in our own despite . When Maria , in the ' Twelfth Night ' of Shakspeare , wishes to punish Malvolio ...
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... . The highest Voice that ever spake has cried out to us , ' Therefore ye be also ready , ' and has , in the beautiful Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins , urged with the greatest possible strength the folly of delay BE UP TO TIME . 43.
... . The highest Voice that ever spake has cried out to us , ' Therefore ye be also ready , ' and has , in the beautiful Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins , urged with the greatest possible strength the folly of delay BE UP TO TIME . 43.
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... wise enough to see ( and how happy are we who are not wise enough ! ) that the girl dotes upon her beautiful , her pure , her noble ideal - that all her heart has gone out to meet the big hero she has tricked out with the rainbow ...
... wise enough to see ( and how happy are we who are not wise enough ! ) that the girl dotes upon her beautiful , her pure , her noble ideal - that all her heart has gone out to meet the big hero she has tricked out with the rainbow ...
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... wise in his generation . People do not go to a theatre as they once did ; the newspaper , the magazine , and the thoughtful essay furnish reflective natures with enough food for the mind , and they do their thinking at home . At a ...
... wise in his generation . People do not go to a theatre as they once did ; the newspaper , the magazine , and the thoughtful essay furnish reflective natures with enough food for the mind , and they do their thinking at home . At a ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.