On the Choice of BooksJames R. Osgood, 1877 - 94 páginas |
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Página 75 - The future hides in it Gladness and sorrow; We press still thorow, Nought that abides in it Daunting us, — onward. And solemn before us, Veiled, the dark Portal; Goal of all mortal : — Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us silent ! While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error ; Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. But heard are the Voices, Heard are the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages: " Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless. Here eyes...
Página 61 - ... all but obliterate it in the hearts of most; yet in every pure soul, in every Poet and Wise Man, it finds a new Missionary, a new Martyr, till the great volume of Universal History is finally closed, and man's destinies are fulfilled in this earth. ' It is a height to which the human species were fated and enabled to attain ; and from which, having once attained it, they can never retrograde.
Página 10 - ... total unacquaintance with such subjects as concern your affairs here, — all this fills me with apprehension that there is really nothing worth the least consideration that I can do on that score. You may depend on it, however, that if any such duty does arise in any form, I will use my most faithful endeavour to do in it whatever is right and proper, according to the best of my judgment [Cheers].
Página 20 - The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut out for him in the world, and does not go into it For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind, — honest work, which yon intend getting done.
Página 71 - You cannot, if you are going to do any decisive intellectual operation that will last a long while ; if, for instance, you are going to write a book,— 'you cannot manage it (at least, I never could) without getting decidedly made ill by it...
Página 18 - And perhaps, in a sense, it may be still said, the very highest interests of man are virtually intrusted to them. In regard to theology ; as you are aware, it has been, and especially was then, the study of the deepest heads that have come into the world, — what is the nature of this stupendous Universe, and what are our relations to it, and to all things knowable by man, or known only to the great Author of man and it.
Página 72 - And that old etymology, — what a lesson it is against certain gloomy, austere, ascetic people, who have gone about as if this world were all a dismal prison-house ! It has indeed got all the ugly things in it which I have been alluding to ; but there is an eternal sky over it ; and the blessed sunshine, the green of prophetic spring, and rich harvests coming, — all this is in it too.
Página 25 - I believe you will find in all histories of nations, that this has been at the origin and foundation of them all ; and that no nation which did not contemplate this wonderful universe with an awe-stricken and reverential belief that there was a great unknown, omnipotent and allwise and all-just Being, superintending all men in it and all interests in it — no- nation ever came to very much, nor did any man either, who forgot that.
Página 76 - While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error; Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. But heard are the Voices, Heard are the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages: " Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless. " Here eyes do regard you, In Eternity's stillness ; Here is all fulness, Ye brave, to reward you ; Work, and despair not.