Selected Essays

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He was accordingly "approbated to preach" by the Middlesex Association of Ministers on October 10, 1826.†

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The king of Schiraz[450] could not afford to be so bountiful as the poor Osman[451] who dwelt at his gate.†

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Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious?†

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I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year; for these moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence which asks nothing of duration, but sees that the energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done, without time.†

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We see the foaming brook with compunction; if our own life flowed with the right energy, we should shame the brook.†

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"] [Footnote 712: "Forgive his crimes," etc. This is quoted from Night Thoughts by the English didactic poet, Edward Young.†

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] [Footnote 141: St. Bernard de Clairvaux (1091-1153), French ecclesiastic.†

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Thou art not Being, as Truth is, as Justice is,—thou art not my soul, but a picture and effigy of that.†

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A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he.†

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I do not wish to expiate, but to live.†

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I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church.†

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These sunset clouds, these delicately emerging stars, with their private and ineffable glances, signify it and proffer it.†

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The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.†

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Everything is made of one hidden stuff; as the naturalist sees one type under every metamorphosis, and regards a horse as a running man, a fish as a swimming man, a bird as a flying man, a tree as a rooted man.†

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It is a very onerous business,[467] this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap.†

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The quotation is from Paradise Lost, Book IX.†

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Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty.†

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But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.†