The essence of good government is trust.
The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.
Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
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