With the ProfessorH. Holt, 1910 - 360 Seiten |
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... kind , pessimism was really due to lack of balance . The Professor understood now why he had felt so much resentment at being called a pessimist . It was really an im- peachment of his understanding , and of his power of self - control ...
... kind , pessimism was really due to lack of balance . The Professor understood now why he had felt so much resentment at being called a pessimist . It was really an im- peachment of his understanding , and of his power of self - control ...
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Grant Showerman. upon their natural eyesight that they had to have glasses of some kind . It was clear , then , that the most efficient cor- rective of the follies of both optimism and pes- simism was knowledge . The pessimist knew too ...
Grant Showerman. upon their natural eyesight that they had to have glasses of some kind . It was clear , then , that the most efficient cor- rective of the follies of both optimism and pes- simism was knowledge . The pessimist knew too ...
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... kind of pessimism - for which you surely will not blame anyone , however much you dislike it - de- pended altogether on health , and that no sort of education made the least difference with it . But knowledge was not useless , even here ...
... kind of pessimism - for which you surely will not blame anyone , however much you dislike it - de- pended altogether on health , and that no sort of education made the least difference with it . But knowledge was not useless , even here ...
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... the longing for better things : Of all the myriad moods of mind That through the soul come thronging , What one was e'er so dear , so kind , So beautiful , as longing ? The thing we long for , that we are For A Prelude on Pessimism 35.
... the longing for better things : Of all the myriad moods of mind That through the soul come thronging , What one was e'er so dear , so kind , So beautiful , as longing ? The thing we long for , that we are For A Prelude on Pessimism 35.
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... kind of childlike amazement that one small head could carry all he knew , the latter by an indifference which was saved from being disgust only by a mild convic- tion that the Professor was something less than absolutely right in his ...
... kind of childlike amazement that one small head could carry all he knew , the latter by an indifference which was saved from being disgust only by a mild convic- tion that the Professor was something less than absolutely right in his ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 99 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Seite 345 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Seite 163 - And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Seite 333 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Seite 226 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Seite 201 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Seite 201 - Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Seite 193 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Seite 358 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.