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“The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.”

Self Objects Enthusiasm Perpetual

Book:The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction

Source: The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction

“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.”

Ifs Men Would Be Parent Race Watches Power Fate Childhood Minutes Objects Authority Absolutes Contrary Oppression Secure Perpetual Immense Manhood Gratification

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?”

People Looks Ideas Moments Body Eye Emotion Middle Objects Lows Mark Emptiness Inches Perpetual Cautious Urgency Wrinkles Apprehension Back Again Middle Aged Sideways

Author:Virginia Woolf

“The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.”

Mind Ideas Shows Numbers Cities Objects Perpetual Large Cities

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.”

Men World Fall Taken Objects Duty Lessons Gods Will Checks Rising Perpetual Inward

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.”

Way Light Objects Direct Perseverance Perpetual

Book:Memoirs, 1: Correspondence and Private Papers

Source: Memoirs, 1: Correspondence and Private Papers