 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pagina’s
...nterpretation ; or they remain, as in all prosaic minds the words of poetry ever do, a dead etter: indications they are, barren in themselves, but by...it is not what we receive, but what we are made to ifvw, that chiefly contents and profits us. True, the mass of readers will object ; because, like the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pagina’s
...should never be forgotten, is here, as under all conditions of mortal existence, an impossi bility. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what.../precise and careful conversation, it is not what \verecewe, but what we are made to give, that chiefly contents and profits us. True, the mass of readers... | |
 | Lost inheritance - 1852 - 938 pagina’s
...or salutary results. CHAPTER IX. Continuance of passive pleasure, it should never be forgotten, is, under all conditions of mortal existence, an impossibility....true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. THOMAS CARLYLE. I cannot forget thee, thy smile haunts me yet, And thy dark earnest eyes bright as... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pagina’s
...should never be forgotten, is here, as under all conditions of mortal existence, an impossi bility. > +W6 . y;p wT # PѴ d ` ; 8 { K V I ǎ\O f Dz . rtrrive, but what we are made to give, that chiefly contents and profits us. True, the mass of readers... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 620 pagina’s
...should never be forgotten, is here, as under all conditions of mortal existence, an impossi bility. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what...it is not what we receive, but what we are made to givi, that chiefly contents and profits us. True, the mass of readers will object ; because, like the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 510 pagina’s
...and the proper art of reading it. We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. Is it a matter of reasoning,...precise and careful conversation, it is not what we receice, but what we are made to give, that chiefly contents and profits us. True, the mass of readers... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 504 pagina’s
...Goethe's hands. To rend an author we must be able to see his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. Goethe's works especially... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1873 - 582 pagina’s
...should never be forgotten, is here, as under all conditions of mortal existence, an impossi bility. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we ilo: so also in intellectual matters, in conversation, in reading, which is more precise and careful... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pagina’s
...was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself. r. BURKE— OH Pitt's First Speech. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. a. CARLYLE— Essays. Goethe's Helena. It is in general more prolitable to reckon up our defects than... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pagina’s
...THINKERS. ACTION. Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice. ( Whittier. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. (Carlyle. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are... | |
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A reposing state, in which the Hill were brought under us, not we obliged to mount it, might indeed for the present be more convenient; but, in the end, it could not be equally satisfying. Continuance of passive pleasure, it should never be forgotten,... 
