Altered (continued) to Amatory

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

altered, v. (11)

    ShP 4.193 13 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.

    ShP 4.201 22 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.

    Prch 10.234 1 ...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to [the deep observer]. He will find the circumstance not altered...

    Schr 10.283 10 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...somewhat... not altered or alterable;...

    Plu 10.320 20 The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled...

    GSt 10.506 7 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation...never altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.

    HDC 11.49 9 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.

    EWI 11.126 8 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that if the state of things in the islands [of the West Indies] was altered, if the slaves had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...

    CInt 12.129 17 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He will find the circumstances not altered;...

    CL 12.140 19 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...

    CL 12.143 17 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.

altering, v. (1)

    Grts 8.319 21 ...the eye altering alters all;...

alternate, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.22 25 ...[the intellectual and the active powers] are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals;...

    Exp 3.68 10 ...the chemical and ethereal agents are undulatory and alternate;...

    F 6.8 5 Without...groping after...the obscurities of alternate generation,- the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.

    PI 8.46 21 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,--of the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms,-- you can easily believe these metres to be organic...

    QO 8.187 23 ...if we learn how old are...the alternate lotus-bud and leaf-stem of our iron fences,-we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.

    MAng1 12.230 10 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments, with the great series of the Prophets and Sibyls in alternate tablets...

alternate, v. (2)

    MoS 4.175 23 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he...will rapidly alternate all opinions in his own life.

    Edc1 10.142 19 ...the most genial and amiable of men must alternate society with solitude...

alternated, v. (2)

    ET8 5.134 15 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...

    CL 12.152 18 ...the pleasures of garden, orchard and wood must be alternated.

alternately, adv. (4)

    MN 1.201 23 Read alternately in natural and in civil history...

    F 6.47 9 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature...

    QO 8.199 2 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;...

    MLit 12.333 24 ...all the hints of omnipresence and energy which we have caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts. And this is the insatiable craving which alternately saddens and gladdens men at this day.

alternates, v. (1)

    Schr 10.277 22 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he...alternates the contemplation of the fact in pure intellect, with the total conversion of the intellect into energy;...

alternating, v. (6)

    PPh 4.55 18 Our strength is transitional, alternating;...

    GoW 4.289 26 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...without relaxation or rest, except by alternating his pursuits, worked on for eighty years...

    ET2 5.29 13 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over [the sea], each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit...

    Dem1 10.4 5 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...antic comedy alternating with horrid pictures.

    PLT 12.58 6 The daily history of the Intellect is this alternating of expansions and concentrations.

    ACri 12.302 11 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking...sour east wind and flowery southwest,-alternating, and each sovereign...

alternation, n. (7)

    Con 1.326 1 ...to return from this alternation of partial views to the high platform of universal and necessary history, it is a happiness for mankind that innovation has got on so far...

    Fdsp 2.197 26 The law of nature is alternation for evermore.

    Chr1 3.105 7 Thence [from character] comes a new intellectual exaltation, to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character. Strange alternation of attraction and repulsion!

    Clbs 7.225 12 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects,--and especially the alternation of a large variety of objects,--are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.

    Clbs 7.249 25 We need range and alternation of topics and variety of minds.

    Res 8.149 4 [The good aunt] relies on the same principle that makes the strength of Newton,--alternation of employment.

    Res 8.150 8 ...the come-and-go of the pendulum, is the law of mind; alternation of labors is its rest.

alternations, n. (2)

    Ill 6.322 4 ...these alternations are not without their order...

    PI 8.49 13 [The elemental forces] furnish the poet with grander pairs and alternations...

alternative, n. (3)

    Con 1.296 15 There is not only the alternative of making and not making, but also of unmaking.

    YA 1.394 16 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society, and which seem to impose the alternative to resist or to avoid it.

    SMC 11.352 17 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years...brought the alternative of extirpation of the poison or ruin to the Republic.

alternatives, n. (2)

    PI 8.47 4 Young people like...things in pairs and alternatives;...

    Schr 10.268 13 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places with their grand alternatives...

alters, v. (11)

    Nat 1.18 19 The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from week to week.

    Nat 1.76 2 Spirit alters, moulds, makes [nature].

    Comp 2.112 27 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? ... The transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbor; and every new transaction alters according to its nature their relation to each other.

    Art1 2.358 2 ...with each moment [the artist] alters the whole air, attitude and expression of his clay.

    Chr1 3.90 15 [The man of character] conquers because his arrival alters the face of affairs.

    Pol1 3.217 11 Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world, alters the world.

    F 6.12 3 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... which skill nowise alters rank in the scale of nature...

    Farm 7.149 16 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...

    PC 8.217 12 Culture alters the political status of an individual.

    Grts 8.319 21 ...the eye altering alters all;...

    ACiv 11.307 13 ...[Emancipation] alters the atomic social constitution of the Southern people.

Althea, To [Richard Lovela (1)

    PI 8.55 29 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in...Lovelace's lines To Althea and To Lucasta...

Althorp, Lord [John Charle (1)

    Boks 7.210 11 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side...

Althorpe, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.190 5 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques (performed at Kenilworth, Althorpe, Belvoir and other noble houses), record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.

altitude, n. (1)

    MLit 12.326 23 ...[Goethe's] thinking is of great altitude, and all level;...

altogether, adv. (21)

    Nat 1.31 21 The poet...bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson altogether...

    SL 2.138 12 ...[a man] is very wise, he is altogether ignorant.

    Fdsp 2.206 16 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted, and withal so circumstanced (for even in that particular, a poet says, love demands that the parties be altogether paired), that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.

    UGM 4.24 15 Altogether independent of the intellectual force in each is the pride of opinion...

    PPh 4.63 20 I give you joy, O sons of men! that truth is altogether wholesome;...

    SwM 4.139 9 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone, he is as respectable as the just man;...

    SwM 4.139 11 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone...he is altogether well employed;...

    ShP 4.191 12 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in...being altogether receptive;...

    ET13 5.216 16 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals. The lord who compelled his boor to labor between sunset on Saturday and sunset on Sunday, forfeited him altogether.

    ET16 5.288 4 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked.

    WD 7.183 17 ...in seeking to find what is the heart of the day, we come to the quality of the moment, and drop the duration altogether.

    Comc 8.164 2 ...the very jests and merry talk of true philosophers move those that are not altogether insensible...

    Imtl 8.345 1 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as...altogether cheap and common...

    MoL 10.255 15 God and Nature are altogether sincere...

    Plu 10.304 15 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces, uttering sentences altogether thoughtful and serious...continues her voice a thousand years...

    LLNE 10.344 16 [Theodore Parker] stood altogether for practical truth;...

    MMEm 10.429 27 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion?

    LS 11.4 18 ...it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite [the Lord's Supper] altogether...

    LS 11.8 9 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind that this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...and yet have been altogether out of his purpose to fasten it upon men in all times and all countries.

    ACri 12.294 5 A man of experience altogether, [Shakespeare's] very sonnets are as solid and close to facts as the Banker's Gazette;...

    PPr 12.391 15 Carlyle is a poet who is altogether too burly in his frame and habit to submit to the limits of metre.

Altoviti, Bindo, Bust of [ (1)

    MAng1 12.239 12 [Michelangelo] often expressed his admiration of Cellini's bust of Altoviti.

Alueredus, n. (1)

    ET7 5.117 24 Alfred...is called by a writer at the Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker; Alueredus veridicus.

alum, n. (2)

    Wth 6.94 19 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents...fire-annihilators, etc., is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.

    Bost 12.184 17 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe...that carbon, oxygen, alum and iron, each has its origin in spiritual nature?

alumni, n. (2)

    ET12 5.199 4 At the present day...[Cambridge] has the advantage of Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of distinguished scholars.

    Thor 10.458 24 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books...to clergymen who were alumni...

alumnus, n. (1)

    OA 7.315 4 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy, senior member of the Society, as well as senior alumnus of the University, was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.

alway, adv. (3)

    Elo2 8.109 11 ...[The patriot] bridged the gulf from th' alway good and wise/ To that within the vision of small eyes./

    Aris 10.29 5 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/ Prive and apert, and most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him for the greatest gentilman./

    Aris 10.29 19 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./

always, adj. (1)

    Grts 8.314 18 [Napoleon] was a man who always fell on his feet.

always, adv. (705)

    Nat 1.7 20 The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible;...

    Nat 1.9 24 In the woods, too, a man...is always a child.

    Nat 1.11 8 ...nature is not always tricked in holiday attire...

    Nat 1.11 12 Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

    Nat 1.20 14 The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

    Nat 1.32 18 ...we see that [nature] always stands ready to clothe what we would say...

    Nat 1.35 4 Material objects...are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin;...

    Nat 1.39 1 ...Nature's dice are always loaded;...

    Nat 1.45 19 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female;...

    Nat 1.60 2 ...seen in the light of thought, the world always is phenomenal;...

    Nat 1.61 12 [Nature] always speaks of Spirit.

    Nat 1.61 15 [Nature] is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us.

    Nat 1.66 3 In inquiries respecting...the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest.

    Nat 1.70 14 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature...which, as they have always been in the world...may be both history and prophecy.

    AmS 1.82 2 The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

    AmS 1.85 7 There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

    AmS 1.91 4 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence.

    AmS 1.93 8 We then see, what is always true, that as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare...so is its record...the least part of his volume.

    AmS 1.94 13 I have heard it said that the clergy, - who are always...the scholars of their day, - are addressed as women;...

    AmS 1.99 6 ...[the artist] has always the resource to live.

    AmS 1.100 8 ...always we are invited to work;...

    AmS 1.104 7 Fear always springs from ignorance.

    AmS 1.105 26 The day is always his who works in it with serenity and great aims.

    AmS 1.111 20 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking, as always it does lurk, in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...

    DSA 1.123 6 Character is always known.

    DSA 1.123 24 These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed that the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will...

    DSA 1.126 12 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East;...

    DSA 1.126 17 Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses.

    DSA 1.131 25 That is always best which gives me to myself.

    DSA 1.132 19 A true conversion...is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.

    DSA 1.134 17 Always the seer is a sayer.

    DSA 1.139 11 ...when we preach unworthily, it is not always quite in vain.

    LE 1.169 24 Men believe in the adaptations of utility, always...

    LE 1.179 8 In this instance, as always, that man [Napoleon]...represented performance in lieu of pretension.

    LE 1.179 15 ...[Napoleon] belonged to a class...who think that what a man can do is his greatest ornament, and that he always consults his dignity by doing it.

    LE 1.180 18 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...

    MN 1.195 10 The festival of the intellect and the return to its source cast a strong light on the always interesting topics of Man and Nature.

    MN 1.199 26 ...nature descends always from above.

    MN 1.209 11 I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind...

    MN 1.211 4 It was always the theory of literature that the word of a poet was authoritative and final.

    MN 1.216 6 Your end should be one inapprehensible to the senses; then will it be a god always approached, never touched;...

    MN 1.216 7 Your end should be one inapprehensible to the senses; then will it be a god...always giving health.

    MN 1.221 10 Truth is always holy, holiness is always wise.

    MR 1.236 1 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of state? ... This would be great action, which always opens the eyes of men.

    MR 1.247 4 Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self...instead of being always prompt to grab?,

    MR 1.252 26 ...we enact the part of the selfish noble and king from the foundation of the world. See, this tree always bears one fruit.

    MR 1.256 8 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which...postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...

    LT 1.267 21 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless...

    LT 1.271 11 The history of reform is always identical...

    LT 1.275 19 See how daring is the reading, the speculation, the experimenting of the time. If now some genius shall arise who could unite these scattered rays! And always such a genius does embody the ideas of each time.

    LT 1.278 15 To the youth...the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements...

    LT 1.289 25 The granite is curiously concealed a thousand formations and surfaces...but it...is always indicating its presence by slight but sure signs.

    Con 1.297 23 There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism...

    Con 1.298 4 ...conservatism always has the worst of the argument...

    Con 1.298 5 ...conservatism...is always apologizing...

    Con 1.298 11 ...innovation is always in the right...

    Con 1.301 1 In nature, each of these elements [Conservatism and Reform] being always present, each theory has a natural support.

    Con 1.310 25 ...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.

    Con 1.320 6 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...always mitigations, never remedies;...

    Con 1.323 19 ...it is always at last the virtue of some men in the society, which keeps the law in any reverence and power.

    Tran 1.329 6 The light is always identical in its composition...

    Tran 1.331 9 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive.

    Tran 1.337 20 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature. The oriental mind has always tended to this largeness.

    YA 1.372 5 [That Genius] indicates itself by...a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

    YA 1.374 7 ...the principle of population is always reducing wages to the lowest pittance on which human life can be sustained.

    YA 1.376 22 ...this club of noblemen always come at last to have a will of their own;...

    YA 1.388 15 I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense. They recommend...whatever will earn and preserve property; always the capitalist;...

    YA 1.390 7 That is [the hero's] nobility, his oath of knighthood...always to throw himself on the side of weakness, of youth, of hope;...

    YA 1.391 2 ...the wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet;...

    Hist 2.3 19 ...the thought is always prior to the fact;...

    Hist 2.6 13 ...involuntarily we always read as superior beings.

    Hist 2.9 26 We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience...

    Hist 2.13 20 Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

    Hist 2.18 7 The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us...

    Hist 2.18 12 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait...

    Hist 2.26 13 The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to man, and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics.

    Hist 2.32 7 Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul.

    Hist 2.35 20 Lucy Ashton is another name for fidelity, which is always beautiful and always liable to calamity in this world.

    SR 2.45 3 The soul always hears an admonition in such [original] lines...

    SR 2.47 16 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you...the connection of events. Great men have always done so...

    SR 2.49 18 Who can thus avoid all pledges...must always be formidable.

    SR 2.53 24 ...you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

    SR 2.59 16 Always scorn appearances and you always may.

    SR 2.59 17 Always scorn appearances and you always may.

    SR 2.60 2 [Honor] is always ancient virtue.

    SR 2.67 25 We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts...

    SR 2.71 23 How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary! So let us always sit.

    SR 2.76 11 A sturdy lad...who teams it, farms it...and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

    SR 2.88 9 ...that which a man is, does always by necessity acquire;...

    Comp 2.93 8 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...lay always before me, even in sleep;...

    Comp 2.93 19 ...the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love, conversing with that which he knows was always and always must be...

    Comp 2.98 23 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down the overbearing...substantially on the same ground with all others.

    Comp 2.99 24 Has [the man of genius] light? he must...always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction...

    Comp 2.102 13 ...The dice of God are always loaded.

    Comp 2.103 23 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem...

    Comp 2.107 9 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares...

    Comp 2.108 27 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations, which are always the literature of reason...

    Comp 2.109 23 Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them.

    Comp 2.113 10 Always pay;...

    Comp 2.116 11 [Commit a crime and] Some damning circumstance always transpires.

    Comp 2.117 24 A great man is always willing to be little.

    Comp 2.120 9 Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities...

    Comp 2.122 12 The soul...always affirms an Optimism...

    SL 2.134 12 Men of an extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, Not unto us, not unto us.

    SL 2.137 10 Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways.

    SL 2.145 4 The soul's emphasis is always right.

    SL 2.146 17 We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen.

    SL 2.158 25 The high, the generous, the self-devoted sect will always instruct and command mankind.

    Lov1 2.180 5 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

    Lov1 2.185 26 Not always can flowers...content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

    Fdsp 2.209 8 He only is fit for this society [of friendship]...who is sure that greatness and goodness are always economy;...

    Fdsp 2.215 17 ...I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

    Prd1 2.223 26 [Culture] sees prudence...to be...a name for wisdom and virtue conversing with the body and its wants. Cultivated men always feel and speak so...

    Prd1 2.226 20 ...the inhabitants of these [northern] climates have always excelled the southerner in force.

    Prd1 2.227 2 Time is always bringing the occasions that disclose [facts!] value.

    Prd1 2.231 23 Genius is always ascetic, and piety, and love.

    Prd1 2.236 23 ...the proper administration of outward things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin;...

    Hsm1 2.250 25 Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right;...

    Hsm1 2.258 27 The magic [many extraordinary young men] used was the ideal tendencies, which always make the Actual ridiculous;...

    Hsm1 2.260 21 ...Always do what you are afraid to do.

    Hsm1 2.262 11 ...whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

    Hsm1 2.262 13 ...the trial of persecution always proceeds.

    OS 2.267 8 ...the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain.

    OS 2.267 20 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written, but he is always leaving behind what you have said of him...

    OS 2.268 1 In [philosophy's] experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve.

    OS 2.272 26 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so.

    OS 2.273 16 ...always the soul's scale is one, the scale of the senses and the understanding is another.

    OS 2.275 6 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world...

    OS 2.281 2 These [announcements of the soul] are always attended by the emotion of the sublime.

    OS 2.282 1 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men...

    OS 2.282 19 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist;...the experiences of the Methodists, are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.

    OS 2.287 20 Jesus speaks always from within...

    OS 2.292 1 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes...

    Cir 2.301 16 ...there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon...

    Cir 2.305 23 The new statement is always hated by the old...

    Cir 2.306 15 The last chamber, the last closet, [every man] must feel was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable.

    Cir 2.309 4 Generalization is always a new influx of the divinity into the mind.

    Cir 2.317 3 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such...

    Cir 2.319 26 In nature...the past is always swallowed and forgotten;...

    Int 2.325 15 The first questions are always to be asked...

    Int 2.326 17 He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot see the problem of existence. This the intellect always ponders.

    Int 2.328 13 Our spontaneous action is always the best.

    Int 2.333 7 I knew...a person who always deferred to me;...

    Int 2.334 17 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond;...

    Int 2.335 4 To genius must always go two gifts, the thought and the publication.

    Int 2.335 5 [The thought] is...always a miracle...

    Int 2.335 8 [The thought] is...always a miracle...which must always leave the inquirer stupid with wonder.

    Int 2.338 3 ...the artist's copies from experience [are]...always touched and softened by tints from this ideal domain.

    Int 2.338 21 ...the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative...

    Art1 2.352 18 ...the new in art is always formed out of the old.

    Art1 2.359 21 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works were not always thus constellated;...

    Art1 2.365 7 ...true art is...always flowing.

    Art1 2.368 7 [Beauty] will come, as always, unannounced...

    Pt1 3.2 3 Olympian bards who sung/ Divine ideas below,/ Which always find us young,/ And always keep us so./

    Pt1 3.2 4 Olympian bards who sung/ Divine ideas below,/ Which always find us young,/ And always keep us so./

    Pt1 3.10 10 ...the world seems always waiting for its poet.

    Pt1 3.14 26 ...science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man...

    Exp 3.50 14 There are always sunsets, and there is always genius;...

    Exp 3.50 15 There are always sunsets, and there is always genius;...

    Exp 3.57 23 Something is earned...by conversing with so much folly and defect. In fine, whoever loses, we are always of the gaining party.

    Exp 3.62 4 ...I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.

    Exp 3.68 20 In the thought of genius there is always a surprise;...

    Exp 3.69 24 The individual is always mistaken.

    Exp 3.70 1 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken.

    Exp 3.71 4 Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is...the Ideal journeying always with us...

    Exp 3.73 27 ...in particulars, our greatness is always in a tendency or direction...

    Exp 3.84 20 I hear always the law of Adrastia, that every soul which had acquired any truth, should be safe from harm until another period.

    Exp 3.85 24 ...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him.

    Chr1 3.98 19 I am always environed by myself.

    Chr1 3.103 13 People always recognize this difference. We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.

    Chr1 3.103 23 Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

    Chr1 3.115 1 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.

    Mrs1 3.127 20 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles. The last are always filled or filling from the first.

    Mrs1 3.131 18 A sainted soul is always elegant...

    Mrs1 3.132 10 ...strong will is always in fashion...

    Mrs1 3.133 7 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some fashion...

    Mrs1 3.133 9 There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation...

    Mrs1 3.136 5 ...the first point of courtesy must always be truth...

    Mrs1 3.142 20 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox]...Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the Tuileries.

    Mrs1 3.147 17 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference...

    Gts 3.159 9 ...it is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

    Gts 3.159 14 Flowers and fruits are always fit presents;...

    Gts 3.160 19 ...it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors...

    Gts 3.160 21 ...as it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors, so it is always a great satisfaction to supply these first wants.

    Gts 3.165 4 There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens;...

    Nat2 3.176 1 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off.

    Nat2 3.178 6 ...the beauty of nature must always seem unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures that are as good as itself.

    Nat2 3.181 6 Nature is always consistent...

    Nat2 3.193 7 It is the same among the men and women as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence...

    Nat2 3.195 5 ...though we are always engaged with particulars...we bring with us to every experiment the innate universal laws.

    Pol1 3.204 11 ...there is an instinctive sense...that property will always follow persons;...

    Pol1 3.204 20 Society always consists in greatest part of young and foolish persons.

    Pol1 3.205 13 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always weigh a pound;...

    Pol1 3.205 14 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always attract and resist other matter by the full virtue of one pound weight...

    Pol1 3.211 4 In the strife of ferocious parties, human nature always finds itself cherished;...

    Pol1 3.211 23 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that...a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.

    Pol1 3.220 10 ...there will always be a government of force where men are selfish;...

    NR 3.231 21 Property keeps the accounts of the world, and is always moral.

    NR 3.232 11 The Eleusinian mysteries...the Greek sculpture, show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.

    NR 3.247 24 I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

    NER 3.258 14 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men...

    NER 3.270 12 We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend;...

    NER 3.273 21 ...[Men] resent your honesty for an instant, they will thank you for it always.

    UGM 4.18 18 The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.

    UGM 4.31 18 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.

    PPh 4.56 5 Thought seeks to know unity in unity; poetry to show it by variety; that is, always by an object or symbol.

    PPh 4.69 25 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.

    PPh 4.73 21 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...whose dreadful logic was always leisurely and sportive;...

    PPh 4.73 24 [Socrates] always knew the way out; knew it, yet would not tell it.

    PNR 4.88 24 ...in Plato, intellect is always moral.

    SwM 4.105 1 ...Linnaeus, [Swedenborg's] contemporary, was affirming... that Nature is always like herself...

    SwM 4.107 10 In the old aphorism, nature is always self-familiar.

    SwM 4.126 14 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends.

    SwM 4.134 23 Nothing with [Swedenborg] has the liberality of universal wisdom, but we are always in a church.

    SwM 4.139 3 The largest is always the truest sentiment...

    MoS 4.152 9 Things always bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

    MoS 4.177 5 The word Fate...expresses the sense of mankind...that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.

    MoS 4.181 17 Great believers are always reckoned infidels...

    ShP 4.214 6 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine, and then proceeds at leisure to etch a million. There are always objects; but there was never representation.

    ShP 4.215 5 [Shakespeare] is not reduced to dismount and walk because his horses are running off with him in some distant direction: he always rides.

    NMW 4.224 9 The second [democratic] class is selfish also...always outnumbering the other [conservative class]...

    NMW 4.229 26 [The art of war] consisted, according to [Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...

    NMW 4.230 3 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution, to march always on the enemy at an angle...

    NMW 4.230 6 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.

    NMW 4.231 24 I have always marched with the opinion of great masses and with events [said Bonaparte].

    NMW 4.235 27 The grand principle of war, [Bonaparte] said, was that an army ought always to be ready...to make all the resistance it is capable of making.

    NMW 4.237 2 We are always in peril...

    NMW 4.237 3 We are...always in a bad plight...

    NMW 4.238 10 ...[Napoleon said] I have observed that it is always these quarters of an hour that decide the fate of a battle.

    NMW 4.247 15 The lesson [Napoleon] teaches is that which vigor always teaches;...

    NMW 4.247 16 The lesson [Napoleon] teaches is that which vigor always teaches;--that there is always room for it.

    NMW 4.249 22 [Napoleon] delighted in running through the range of practical, of literary and of abstract questions. His opinion is always original and to the purpose.

    GoW 4.277 8 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil]...was pure intellect, applied,--as always there is a tendency,--to the service of the senses...

    ET1 5.22 1 ...[Wordsworth] had always wished Coleridge would write more to be understood.

    ET2 5.30 11 ...the wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

    ET2 5.32 27 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines, on the plea that you could never...hold property in what was always flowing, the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...

    ET4 5.47 17 The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue...

    ET4 5.56 19 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.

    ET4 5.67 2 [The blonde race] is not a final race, once a crab always crab...

    ET4 5.70 17 The French say that Englishmen in the street always walk straight before them like mad dogs.

    ET4 5.72 21 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service...

    ET4 5.73 16 The [English] gentlemen are always on horseback...

    ET5 5.85 23 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always favored the heaviest battalion.

    ET5 5.99 14 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family, and brings the hoards of power which their individuality is always hiving, into use and play for all.

    ET6 5.111 5 ...the cockneys stifle the curiosity of the foreigner on the reason of any practice with Lord, sir, it was always so.

    ET8 5.136 2 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy.

    ET8 5.141 11 The [English] nation always resist the immoral action of their government.

    ET9 5.151 16 Individual traits are always triumphing over national ones.

    ET9 5.151 24 Nature and destiny are always on the watch for our follies.

    ET12 5.200 27 Chaucer found [Oxford] as firm as if it had always stood;...

    ET12 5.207 14 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore.

    ET12 5.213 14 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind, as an appeal to moral order always must.

    ET14 5.241 14 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...

    ET14 5.247 18 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good.

    ET14 5.250 26 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions and give his present studies always the same high place.

    ET14 5.260 2 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England; but it is not the Poor and the Rich, nor is it...the Celt and the Goth. These are each always becoming the other;...

    ET15 5.266 11 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men.

    ET15 5.271 26 There is always safety in valor.

    ET17 5.295 12 In speaking of I know not what style, [Wordsworth] said, to be sure, it was the manner, but then you know the matter always comes out of the manner.

    ET17 5.297 7 Landor, always generous, says that [Wordsworth] never praised anybody.

    ET18 5.303 4 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class, who are always the source of letters and science.

    F 6.13 6 ...in the history of the individual is always an account of his condition...

    F 6.13 12 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection, planting himself...on the side of progress...

    F 6.20 17 ...the ring of necessity is always perched at the top.

    F 6.21 9 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator...always striking soon or late when justice is not done.

    F 6.27 15 [Thought, necessity, will] must always have coexisted.

    F 6.28 9 Always one man more than another represents the will of Divine Providence to the period.

    F 6.31 19 ...relation and connection are...everywhere and always.

    F 6.40 5 ...what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

    Pow 6.58 22 There is always room for a man of force...

    Pow 6.64 6 The same elements are always present...

    Pow 6.66 13 Of the Shaker society it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country that they always sent the devil to market.

    Pow 6.70 7 ...[the people's] instincts are a finger-pointing of Providence, always turned toward real benefit.

    Pow 6.75 6 One of the high anecdotes of the world is the reply of Newton to the inquiry how he had been able to achieve his discoveries?--By always intending my mind.

    Wth 6.100 8 [The right merchant] is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune...

    Wth 6.107 4 ...every man has a certain satisfaction...when he sees that things themselves dictate the price, as they always tend to do...

    Wth 6.108 21 If the wind were always southwest by west, said the skipper, women might take ships to sea.

    Wth 6.112 25 ...society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

    Wth 6.125 9 ...the royal rule of economy is that...whatever we do must always have a higher aim.

    Wth 6.126 22 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane;...

    Ctr 6.140 22 We are always a little late.

    Ctr 6.141 21 Books...must always enter into our notion of culture.

    Ctr 6.142 4 Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

    Ctr 6.142 5 I am always happy to meet persons who perceive the transcendent superiority of Shakspeare over all other writers.

    Ctr 6.143 21 Provided always the boy is teachable...football, cricket...are lessons in the art of power...

    Ctr 6.154 5 What is odious but...people whose vane points always east...

    Bhr 6.169 18 There is always a best way of doing everything...

    Bhr 6.171 14 Your manners are always under examination...

    Bhr 6.175 9 There are always exceptional people and modes.

    Bhr 6.176 24 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns. Take a date-tree, leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates.

    Bhr 6.181 12 ...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it.

    Bhr 6.183 5 It was said of the late Lord Holland that he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met with some signal good fortune.

    Bhr 6.185 10 Here is Elise, who caught cold in coming into the world and has always increased it since.

    Bhr 6.185 17 Here are the sweet following eyes of Cecile; it seemed always that she demanded the heart.

    Bhr 6.188 25 I had received, said a sibyl, I had received at birth the fatal gift of penetration; and these Cassandras are always born.

    Bhr 6.191 6 ...Whatever is known to thyself alone, has always very great value.

    Bhr 6.193 10 Between simple and noble persons there is always a quick intelligence;...

    Bhr 6.195 27 [Beautiful manners] must always show self-control;...

    Wsp 6.201 23 ...we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

    Wsp 6.204 24 There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended into the invisible...

    Wsp 6.205 3 Heaven always bears some proportion to earth.

    Wsp 6.214 12 Religion must always be a crab fruit;...

    Wsp 6.220 26 ...[a man] does not see...that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always;...

    Wsp 6.226 1 In every variety of human employment...there are...those... who finish their task for its own sake; and the state and the world is happy that has the most of such finishers. The world will always do justice at last to such finishers; it cannot otherwise.

    Wsp 6.229 2 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking through you to the dim dictator behind you.

    Wsp 6.234 14 Benedict was always great in the present time.

    Wsp 6.238 3 ...the highest virtue is always against the law.

    Wsp 6.238 19 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely, the terror of its being taken away;...

    Wsp 6.242 6 Honor and fortune exist to him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great,--always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

    Wsp 6.242 7 Honor and fortune exist to him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great,--always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

    CbW 6.253 10 It is of no use for us to make war with [the fools]; [wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers] we shall not weaken them; they will always be the masters.

    CbW 6.260 13 ...the most meritorious public services have always been performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence.

    CbW 6.265 16 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead;...

    CbW 6.266 18 ...we shall not always traverse seas and lands with light purposes...

    CbW 6.276 12 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.

    Bty 6.286 17 [Knowledge of men, knowledge of manners, the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence] are facts of a science...whose teachers and subjects are always near us.

    Bty 6.293 2 The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode...

    Ill 6.316 4 Too pathetic, too pitiable, is the region of affection, and its atmosphere always liable to mirage.

    Ill 6.319 12 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.

    Ill 6.323 17 ...the Indians say that they do not think the white man...always toiling...has any advantage of them.

    SS 7.12 25 'T is said the present and the future are always rivals.

    Civ 7.20 20 The occasion of one of these starts of growth is always some novelty that astounds the mind and provokes it to dare to change.

    Civ 7.21 4 The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

    Civ 7.26 17 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name...

    Civ 7.27 3 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.

    Civ 7.28 4 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way...

    Art2 7.38 6 Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does [the thought] knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

    Art2 7.51 21 ...the great works [of art] are always attuned to moral nature.

    Art2 7.56 1 These arts have their origin always in some enthusiasm...

    Elo1 7.83 1 There is always a rivalry between the orator and the occasion...

    Elo1 7.84 12 ...the occasion always yields to the eminence of the speaker;...

    Elo1 7.84 25 Napoleon's tactics of marching on the angle of an army, and always presenting a superiority of numbers, is the orator's secret also.

    Elo1 7.88 10 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense...

    Elo1 7.88 19 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are not always finished to the eye...

    Elo1 7.91 10 ...people always perceive whether you drive or whether the horses take the bits in their teeth and run.

    Elo1 7.95 11 ...the conditions for eloquence always exist.

    Elo1 7.95 12 [Eloquence] is always dying out of famous places and appearing in corners.

    DL 7.108 11 ...we are always hovering round this better divination.

    DL 7.108 13 ...we are always hovering round this better divination. In one form or another we are always returning to it.

    DL 7.117 21 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be the shelter always open to good and true persons;...

    DL 7.127 25 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.

    Farm 7.140 1 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done by one kind of man;...

    Farm 7.140 24 The city is always recruited from the country.

    Farm 7.145 7 The adamant is always passing into smoke.

    Farm 7.151 24 ...when [the first planter] is hungry, he cannot always kill and eat a bear...

    WD 7.164 2 ...the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...

    WD 7.164 3 ...the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos, always in a crisis.

    WD 7.173 16 Who is he that does not always find himself doing something less than his best task?

    WD 7.174 9 The world is always equal to itself...

    WD 7.176 17 We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...

    WD 7.176 25 A general, said Bonaparte, always has troops enough, if he only knows how to employ those he has, and bivouacs with them.

    WD 7.183 10 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky.

    WD 7.184 4 There are people...who do not care so much for conditions as others, for they are always in one condition and enjoy themselves;...

    Boks 7.195 2 Nature is always clarifying her water and her wine.

    Boks 7.195 5 [Nature] does the same thing by books as by her gases and plants. There is always a selection in writers, and then a selection from the selection.

    Boks 7.196 9 Dr. Johnson said he always went into stately shops;...

    Boks 7.214 23 ...the novel...will not always be the novel of costume merely.

    Boks 7.215 21 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party.

    Boks 7.220 4 ...Nature is always equal to herself...

    Clbs 7.226 26 Neither do we by any means always go to people for conversation.

    Clbs 7.233 1 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle;...

    Clbs 7.240 9 You may condemn [the eloquent man's] book, but can you fight against his thought? That is always too nimble for you...

    Clbs 7.245 19 It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.

    Clbs 7.246 15 A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains;...

    Clbs 7.250 11 ...Nature is always very much in earnest...

    Cour 7.259 7 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive...

    Cour 7.260 10 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the negro's? And what kind of strength did they ever give him? It was always invitation to the tyrant...

    Cour 7.261 25 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do...

    Cour 7.274 4 ...[the religious sentiment] is always new...

    Cour 7.277 14 ...there is one good opinion which must always be of consequence to you, namely, your own.

    Cour 7.278 11 And when the bird or deer/ Fell by the hunter's skill,/ The boy was always near/ To help with right good will./

    Suc 7.290 7 ...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the conquerors.

    Suc 7.294 13 The good workman never says, There, that will do; but, There, that is it: try it, and come again, it will last always.

    Suc 7.302 24 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love;...

    Suc 7.306 10 The world is always opulent...

    OA 7.318 7 ...as long as one is alone by himself, he is not sensible of the inroads of time, which always begin at the surface-edges.

    OA 7.321 23 ...knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands;...

    OA 7.333 9 [John Adams said] [John Quincy Adams] has always been laborious...from infancy.

    OA 7.335 6 [John Adams] likes to have a person always reading to him...

    PI 8.4 14 ...the creation is...in transit, always passing into something else...

    PI 8.17 7 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to see that the object is always flowing away...

    PI 8.17 21 A deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

    PI 8.20 12 A symbol always stimulates the intellect;...

    PI 8.23 12 ...good poetry is always personification...

    PI 8.31 20 To the poet...it is always time to do right.

    PI 8.31 27 ...[men of the world] admit the general truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the statute.

    PI 8.33 14 In proportion always to [the writer's] possession of his thought is his defiance of his readers.

    PI 8.41 15 Our science is always abreast of our self-knowledge.

    PI 8.53 21 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds clapped their hands...the sky spoke. This is the substance, and this treatment always attempts a metrical grace.

    PI 8.53 24 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people, and they are always hymns...

    PI 8.58 14 ...[The wind] is always of the same age with the ages of ages,/ And of equal breadth with the surface of the earth./

    PI 8.71 26 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms. Hence the shudder of joy with which in each clear moment we recognize the metamorphosis, because it is always a conquest, a surprise from the heart of things.

    SA 8.81 5 [Manners'] vast convenience I must always admire.

    SA 8.84 23 Less credit will there be? You are mistaken. There will always be more and more.

    SA 8.85 18 Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

    SA 8.88 4 There are always slovens in State Street or Wall Street, who are not less considered.

    SA 8.88 9 If the intellect were always awake...the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired...

    SA 8.89 12 Welfare requires...persons...who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue; and these we are always in search of.

    SA 8.97 15 Must we always talk for victory...

    SA 8.97 23 ...[in the man of genius] is...always some weary, captious paradox to fight you with...

    SA 8.100 24 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering for investment, he can come to wealth...

    SA 8.102 12 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...

    SA 8.103 11 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company: what...with an eye always to the working of the thing...

    Elo2 8.125 7 ...[the man in the street]...can always get the ear of an audience to the exclusion of everybody else.

    Elo2 8.126 5 The polite are always catching modish innovations...

    Elo2 8.131 9 There is [in eloquence] always the previous question: How came you on that side?

    Res 8.138 14 ...if you tell me that there is always life for the living;...I am invigorated...

    Res 8.138 17 ...if you tell me...that there is always a way to everything desirable;...I am invigorated...

    Res 8.141 15 Life is always rapid here [in America]...

    Res 8.151 15 Natural history is, in the country...always opening new resorts.

    Comc 8.162 26 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man...

    Comc 8.169 14 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll.

    QO 8.191 9 We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself;...

    QO 8.192 4 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master of the house.

    QO 8.193 2 Truth is always present...

    QO 8.193 7 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always some steep transition...betrays the foreign interpolation.

    QO 8.195 23 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls...

    QO 8.201 10 ...however received, these elements pass into the substance of [the individual's] constitution...and tend always to form, not a partisan, but a possessor of truth.

    QO 8.202 7 There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech which the immanence of the oracle bestowed...

    QO 8.202 17 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god. True poets have always ascended to this lofty platform...

    QO 8.203 25 The great deal always with the nearest.

    PC 8.210 4 When classes are exasperated against each other, the peace of the world is always kept by striking a new note.

    PC 8.213 17 The world is always equal to itself.

    PC 8.215 21 It is always hard to go beyond your public.

    PC 8.216 19 ...the hope of any time, must always be sought in the minorities.

    PC 8.218 20 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed.

    PC 8.219 16 The artist has always the masters in his eye...

    PC 8.220 2 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are...always known to the adepts;...

    PC 8.221 25 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world...Truth, on whose side we always heartily are.

    PC 8.223 16 Nature is brute but as this soul quickens it; Nature, always the effect, mind the flowing cause.

    PC 8.226 20 ...the tongue is always learning to say what the ear has taught it...

    PC 8.229 20 The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

    PC 8.232 10 In the Rebellion, who were our best allies? Always the enemy.

    PPo 8.243 10 Gnomic verses...were always current in the East;...

    PPo 8.245 3 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us...

    PPo 8.248 15 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend, and therefore is always provoking the accusation of irreligion.

    PPo 8.252 17 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion, always gracefully...

    PPo 8.257 3 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree, the birds that inhabit them, and the garden flowers, are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz], and are always named with effect.

    Insp 8.290 25 William Blake said, Natural objects always did and do weaken, deaden and obliterate imagination in me.

    Insp 8.295 2 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...

    Grts 8.307 17 [A man's bias] is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path...

    Grts 8.314 15 Napoleon commands our respect...by the speed and security of his action in the premises, always new.

    Grts 8.316 22 ...natural is really allied to moral power, and may always be expected to approach it by its own instincts.

    Grts 8.317 15 ...[morals and intellect]...always beckon to each other...

    Grts 8.318 12 ...there are always men who have a more catholic genius...

    Grts 8.320 22 The man...whose aim is always distinct to him;...he it is whom we seek...

    Imtl 8.327 25 Swedenborg...announced many things true and admirable, though always clothed in somewhat sad and Stygian colors.

    Imtl 8.336 25 Nature never moves by jumps, but always in steady and supported advances.

    Imtl 8.343 2 ...we are always balked of a complete success...

    Imtl 8.347 21 ...when we are living in the sentiments we ask no questions about time. The spiritual world takes place;-that which is always the same.

    Dem1 10.5 6 A painful imperfection almost always attends [dreams].

    Dem1 10.9 19 ...[dreams] have a substantial truth. The same remark may be extended to the omens and coincidences which may have astonished us. Of all it is true that the reason of them is always latent in the individual.

    Dem1 10.10 10 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate, if only eyes of sufficient heed and illumination were fastened on the sign. The sign is always there, if only the eye were also;...

    Dem1 10.13 20 In times most credulous of these fancies the sense was always met and the superstition rebuked by the grave spirit of reason and humanity.

    Dem1 10.18 15 [Demonic individuals] are not always superior persons...

    Dem1 10.25 22 ...this prodigious promiser [Animal Magnetism] ends always and always will...in a very small and smoky performance.

    Aris 10.38 8 From the most accumulated culture we are always running back to the sound of any drum and fife.

    Aris 10.46 25 ...the revolution of things is always bringing the need, now of this, now of that...

    Aris 10.47 25 This is the whole game of society and the politics of the world. Being will always seem well;-but whether possibly I cannot contrive to seem without the trouble of being?

    Aris 10.60 18 That highest good of rational existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances.

    Aris 10.61 10 The honor of a member consists in...in the pursuing undisturbed the career of a Brother, as if always in their presence...

    Aris 10.61 23 ...when the great come by, as always there are angels walking in the earth, they know [the generous soul] at sight.

    Aris 10.62 12 Justice always wants champions.

    Aris 10.64 25 Virtue and genius are always on the direct way to the control of the society in which they are found.

    Aris 10.65 1 It is the interest of society that good men should govern, and there is always a tendency so to place them.

    PerF 10.70 12 The adamant is always passing into smoke;...

    PerF 10.80 7 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense battery discharging irresistible volleys of power always at the right point in the right time.

    PerF 10.85 23 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry of forms, instead of working to simple ends, in the belief that Heaven always succors us in working for these.

    Chr2 10.109 9 Mankind at large always resemble frivolous children;...

    Chr2 10.112 27 ...Nature, moral as well as material, is always equal to herself.

    Chr2 10.113 1 Ideas always generate enthusiasm.

    Chr2 10.114 11 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals, always the same...

    Chr2 10.117 9 There will always be a class of imaginative youths...

    Edc1 10.125 6 Language is always wise.

    Edc1 10.130 1 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock for us the concealed faculties of the mind? Whatever private or petty ends are frustrated, this end is always answered.

    Edc1 10.130 19 If Newton come and...perceive...that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...

    Edc1 10.131 3 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...

    Edc1 10.132 4 ...in history an idea always overhangs, like the moon, and rules the tide which rises simultaneously in all the souls of a generation.

    Edc1 10.134 13 Why always coast on the surface...

    Edc1 10.146 25 Always genius seeks genius,

    Edc1 10.153 5 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when his eye is always on the clock...

    Edc1 10.153 20 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind...

    Supl 10.164 14 Bad news is always exaggerated...

    Supl 10.166 20 I...am content that [my eyes] should see the real world, always geometrically finished without blur or halo.

    Supl 10.168 14 Uncle Joel's news is always true, said a person to me with obvious satisfaction...

    Supl 10.175 20 Nature is always serious,-does not jest with us.

    SovE 10.186 21 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...light is not massed aloof, nor electricity, nor gravity, but they are always in combination.

    SovE 10.188 23 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. There is always an instinctive sense of right...

    SovE 10.189 4 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...

    SovE 10.189 22 The inevitabilities are always sapping every seeming prosperity built on a wrong.

    SovE 10.191 21 Man is always throwing his praise or blame on events...

    SovE 10.193 3 Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of Divine justice.

    SovE 10.195 15 We need not always be stipulating for our clean shirt and roast joint per diem.

    SovE 10.198 10 Life is always rich...

    SovE 10.209 1 ...Stoicism, always attractive to the intellectual and cultivated, has now no temples...

    Prch 10.223 14 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait of heroism...

    Prch 10.227 27 Always put the best interpretation on a tenet.

    Prch 10.230 1 The clergy are always in danger of becoming wards and pensioners of the so-called producing classes.

    Prch 10.230 27 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people... wanting peremptorily instruction;...

    Prch 10.234 26 ...though I observe the deafness to counsel among men, yet the power of sympathy is always great;...

    Prch 10.235 5 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid! As for position, the position is always the same...

    MoL 10.247 17 [The scholar] knows that the world is always equal to itself;...

    MoL 10.256 26 There is always the previous question, How came you on that side?

    Schr 10.271 9 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius...

    Schr 10.275 8 Beauty...is always departing from those who depart out of [the moral sentiment].

    Plu 10.295 12 [Henry IV wrote] Plutarch always delights me with a fresh novelty.

    Plu 10.296 3 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch;...

    Plu 10.300 2 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure.

    Plu 10.306 9 We are always interested in the man who treats the intellect well.

    Plu 10.314 13 ...Plutarch always addresses the question [of immortality] on the human side...

    LLNE 10.325 11 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future;...

    LLNE 10.331 21 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.

    LLNE 10.341 19 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always one well-known form...

    LLNE 10.345 3 Society always values...inoffensive people...

    LLNE 10.348 2 Fourier...has put men under the obligation which a generous mind always confers...

    LLNE 10.352 22 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear...

    LLNE 10.354 18 [The Fourier marriage] was...ignorant how serious and how moral [women's] nature always is;...

    LLNE 10.357 24 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious prophets of a true state of society;...one which always establishes itself for the sane soul...

    LLNE 10.361 21 ...a few grave sanitary influences of character were happily there [at Brook Farm], which, I was assured, were always felt.

    LLNE 10.362 8 Margaret Fuller...was often a guest [at Brook Farm], and always in correspondence with her friends.

    LLNE 10.364 23 Letters were always flying not only from house to house [at Brook Farm], but from room to room.

    LLNE 10.365 27 In practice it is always found that virtue is occasional, spotty, and not linear or cubic.

    EzRy 10.382 4 Always inclined to notice ministers...[Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.

    EzRy 10.388 9 Right manly [Ezra Ripley] was, and the manly thing he could always say.

    EzRy 10.388 14 [Ezra Ripley] said, on parting, I wish you and your brothers to come to this house as you have always done.

    EzRy 10.389 7 [Ezra Ripley's] partiality for ladies was always strong...

    MMEm 10.400 16 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man. There was...not always bread enough in the house.

    MMEm 10.402 14 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible.

    MMEm 10.408 14 Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson]...could always be tamed by large and sincere conversation.

    MMEm 10.420 16 Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in Boston? 'T would fatigue, disappoint; I, who have so long despised means, who have always found it a sort of rebellion to seek them?

    MMEm 10.421 16 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry.

    MMEm 10.427 27 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse...

    SlHr 10.447 4 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the simple usages of his church; was always an honored and sometimes an active member.

    SlHr 10.447 16 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion, as there is always a few more of the class remaining...

    SlHr 10.447 17 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion, as there is...always a few young men to whom these manners are native.

    Thor 10.455 26 There was somewhat military in [Thoreau's] nature... always manly and able...

    Thor 10.456 24 ...[Thoreau] was always ready to lead a huckleberry-party...

    Thor 10.462 12 [Thoreau] had always a new resource.

    Thor 10.463 4 ...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town, always ready for any excursion that promised well...

    Thor 10.463 8 [Thoreau's] trenchant sense...was always up to the new occasion.

    Thor 10.467 12 [Thoreau] liked to speak of the manners of the river...yet with exactness, and always to an observed fact.

    Thor 10.470 22 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird...which always, when he saw it, was in the act of diving down into a tree or bush...

    Thor 10.476 1 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression. For this reason his presence...always piqued the curiosity to know more deeply the secrets of his mind.

    Thor 10.482 1 The axe was always destroying [Thoreau's] forest.

    GSt 10.505 27 [George Stearns] had been always a man of simple tastes...

    LS 11.4 22 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.

    LS 11.9 26 [Jesus] always taught by parables and symbols.

    LS 11.10 2 Remember the readiness which [Jesus] always showed to spiritualize every occurrence.

    LS 11.24 27 [The pastoral office] has some [duties] which it will always be my delight to discharge according to my ability...

    HDC 11.47 16 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead...always turned by the last and strongest breath.

    HDC 11.61 18 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.

    HDC 11.82 26 Concord has always been noted for its ministers.

    LVB 11.90 1 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population...has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].

    EWI 11.125 7 The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties.

    EWI 11.141 11 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed; and hence appeared to arise a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of Africa...

    EWI 11.147 13 There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right;...

    War 11.163 25 ...always we are daunted by the appearances;...

    War 11.165 13 We surround ourselves always...with true images of ourselves in things...

    FSLC 11.180 13 ...Boston, whose citizens, intelligent people in England told me they could always distinguish by their culture among Americans;... Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...

    FSLC 11.186 7 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it.

    FSLC 11.187 5 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used.

    FSLN 11.220 1 ...it is always a little difficult to decipher what this public sense is;...

    FSLN 11.220 7 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this. He too is responsible; they will not be. It will always suffice to say,-I followed him.

    FSLN 11.220 19 There is always base ambition enough...

    FSLN 11.225 15 There are always texts and thoughts and arguments.

    FSLN 11.225 24 ...in this country one sees that there is always margin enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge another.

    FSLN 11.226 26 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages, and settled always in the same way by every great jurist, that an immoral law cannot be valid.

    FSLN 11.229 20 The theory of personal liberty must always appeal to the most refined communities...

    FSLN 11.230 14 In Massachusetts...there has always existed a predominant conservative spirit.

    FSLN 11.236 10 ...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which are always soliciting us are breathed into us from on high...

    AsSu 11.248 11 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best.

    AKan 11.258 22 That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to execute the will of the citizens, is always responsible to them...

    AKan 11.258 23 That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to execute the will of the citizens...and is always to be changed when it does not.

    AKan 11.259 13 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...illustrating the fatal effects of a false position to...put the best people always at a disadvantage;...

    AKan 11.259 13 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...one crime always present...

    AKan 11.259 14 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...one crime...always to be varnished over...

    AKan 11.260 24 Are there no women in that [Southern] country,-women, who always carry the conscience of a people?

    TPar 11.291 27 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who... says one thing...always because he must...

    ACiv 11.310 1 ...it is the maxim of history that victory always falls at last where it ought to fall;...

    ACiv 11.311 2 ...it is not yet too late to begin the emancipation; but we think it will always be too late to make it gradual.

    EPro 11.324 24 ...granting the truth, rightly read, of the historical aphorism, that the people always conquer, it is to be noted that, in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...

    HCom 11.342 2 Even Divine Providence...always seems to work after a certain military necessity.

    HCom 11.344 17 These [Harvard] men...were always in the front and always employed.

    HCom 11.344 18 These [Harvard] men...were always in the front and always employed.

    SMC 11.354 17 ...whatever may happen in this hour or that, the years and the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the right.

    SMC 11.357 21 One of our later volunteers...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.

    SMC 11.357 25 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army;...

    SMC 11.359 18 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties, but equal always to the occasion;...

    SMC 11.360 2 [George Prescott] was a Puritan in the army, with traits that remind one of John Brown,-an integrity incorruptible, and an ability that always rose to the need.

    SMC 11.361 10 Always devoted...[George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.

    SMC 11.370 5 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment: it always was a good regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.

    EdAd 11.386 14 ...we are persuaded that moral and material values are always commensurate.

    EdAd 11.387 25 Lovers of our country, but not always approvers of the public counsels, we should certainly be glad to give good advice in politics.

    Koss 11.399 25 We [people of Concord] know the austere condition of liberty...that it is always slipping from those who boast it to those who fight for it...

    Koss 11.400 22 Sir [Kossuth], whatever obstruction from selfishness, indifference, or from property (which always sympathizes with possession) you may encounter, we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...

    Wom 11.406 11 Men remark figure: women always catch the expression.

    Wom 11.408 4 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece. Till the new education and larger opportunities of very modern times, this position, with the fewest possible exceptions, has always been true.

    Wom 11.409 26 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative; the circumstance must always be fit;...

    Wom 11.410 9 ...[Women] are always making that civilization which they require;...

    Wom 11.414 22 In barbarous society the position of women is always low...

    Wom 11.417 23 There is always the want of thought; there is always credulity.

    Wom 11.419 6 Providence is always surprising us with new and unlikely instruments.

    Wom 11.426 4 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.

    RBur 11.443 6 The doves perching always on the eaves of the Stone Chapel opposite, may know something about [the memory of Burns].

    Shak1 11.452 2 There are periods fruitful of great men; others, barren;, or, as the world is always equal to itself, periods when the heat is latent,- others when it is given out.

    Shak1 11.452 8 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years...which, it is said, are always followed by new vivacity in the politics of Europe.

    ChiE 11.473 4 [Confucius's] rare perception appears in...his unerring insight,-putting always the blame of our misfortunes on ourselves;...

    ChiE 11.473 12 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten eight.

    FRO1 11.478 26 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...

    FRO1 11.480 4 Pure doctrine always bears fruit in pure benefits.

    FRO1 11.480 15 The soul of our late war, which will always be remembered as dignifying it, was, first, the desire to abolish slavery in this country...

    FRO2 11.486 10 ...there is a force always at work to make the best better and the worst good.

    CPL 11.497 17 ...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833...

    CPL 11.501 27 A river of thought is always running out of the invisible world into the mind of man.

    CPL 11.503 23 Every one of us is always in search of his friend...

    CPL 11.507 6 ...the book is a sure friend, always ready at your first leisure...

    FRep 11.516 22 The mind is always better the more it is used...

    FRep 11.517 8 ...a court or an aristocracy, which must always be a small minority, can more easily run into follies than a republic...

    FRep 11.517 14 ...the cries of children and debt are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.

    FRep 11.521 12 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do.

    FRep 11.530 17 ...the great interests of mankind...will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.

    PLT 12.4 19 In all sciences the student is discovering that Nature...is always working...after the laws of the human mind.

    PLT 12.16 8 ...the suggestion is always returning, that hidden source publishing at once our being and that it is the source of outward Nature.

    PLT 12.26 16 A subject of thought to which we return...from year to year, has always some ripeness of which we can give no account.

    PLT 12.30 15 There is always a loss of truth and power when a man leaves working for himself to work for another.

    PLT 12.35 8 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth...always whole, never distributed...

    PLT 12.40 3 A perception is always a generalization.

    PLT 12.43 4 I owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...

    PLT 12.46 19 Will is always miraculous...

    PLT 12.48 27 Webster naturally and always grasps...

    PLT 12.60 26 These elements [mind and heart] always coexist in every normal individual...

    II 12.78 27 ...vigor always liberates.

    II 12.80 14 Why should we be...the victims of our own works, and always inferior to ourselves.

    II 12.82 1 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension.

    II 12.83 16 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt. I am aware that Nature does not always pronounce early on this point.

    II 12.84 10 ...men...always work in society with great loss of power.

    Mem 12.95 2 Am I asked whether the thoughts clothe themselves in words? I answer, Yes, always;...

    Mem 12.98 4 The way in which...any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.

    Mem 12.100 4 ...defect of memory is not always want of genius.

    Mem 12.100 7 ...men of great presence of mind who are always equal to the occasion do not need to rely on what they have stored for use...

    Mem 12.102 10 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day. Yet these best days are not always those which memory can retain.

    CInt 12.117 26 Society is always idolatrous...

    CInt 12.118 5 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice...

    CInt 12.120 20 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it...[my counsels to you] be of that nature as is sometimes not good for me to give, but are always good for you to follow.

    CInt 12.124 24 ...genius is always its own law...

    CL 12.136 6 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel...

    CL 12.136 12 ...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.

    CL 12.146 9 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian...

    CL 12.151 26 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us...

    CL 12.164 8 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure; and always for this double reason: first, because they are so excellent in their primary fact...

    CW 12.175 18 ...the word park always charms me.

    CW 12.176 8 ...the perception of beauty always exhilarates...

    CW 12.178 12 ...I am always glad to remember that in proportion to the foliation is the addition of wood.

    Bost 12.195 9 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England; first, namely, the culture of the intellect, which has always been found in the Calvinistic Church.

    Bost 12.196 26 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...

    Bost 12.197 8 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit-always enlarging, firing man...was especially necessary to the culture of New England.

    Bost 12.200 5 America is growing like a cloud...and wealth (always interesting, since from wealth power cannot be divorced) is piled in every form invented for comfort or pride.

    Bost 12.200 12 There are always men ready for adventures...

    Bost 12.203 5 ...there is always [in Boston] a minority unconvinced, always a heresiarch...

    Bost 12.206 18 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...

    Bost 12.209 19 ...the deeper principle will always prevail over whatever material accumulations.

    MAng1 12.226 19 Versatility of talent in men of undoubted ability always awakens the liveliest interest;...

    MAng1 12.237 21 ...it seemed to [Michelangelo] that if a man gave him anything, he was always obligated to that individual.

    Milt1 12.250 8 The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not have taken counsel of his own lofty heart at this, as at other times...

    Milt1 12.250 26 ...when [Milton] comes to speak of the reason of the thing [Defence of the English People], then he always recovers himself.

    Milt1 12.253 6 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art], always greatest at first, continually decreases...

    Milt1 12.253 18 Leaving out of view the pretensions of our contemporaries (always an incalculable influence) we think no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.

    Milt1 12.265 13 [Milton's native honor] always sparkles in his eyes.

    Milt1 12.270 22 [Milton's] private opinions and private conscience always distinguish him.

    ACri 12.284 13 The polite are always catching modish innovations [in language]...

    ACri 12.288 4 The language of the street is always strong.

    ACri 12.305 11 A man of genius or a work of love or beauty...is always a new and incalculable result...

    MLit 12.313 10 [Subjectiveness] is founded on...the need to recognize one nature in all the variety of objects, which always characterizes a genius of the first order.

    MLit 12.313 11 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger...

    MLit 12.314 24 The great always introduce us to facts;...

    MLit 12.314 25 ...small men introduce us always to themselves.

    MLit 12.318 22 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... finds a most genial climate in the American mind.

    MLit 12.323 22 ...of [Goethe's] analysis, always wholes were the result.

    MLit 12.326 19 [Goethe]...worked always to astonish...

    WSL 12.340 16 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find free and sustained thought...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

    WSL 12.342 10 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure!...an Elysian light tinges all objects:-In the afternoon we came unto a land/ In which it seemed always afternoon./

    WSL 12.345 25 ...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide. For the person who stands in this lofty relation to his fellow men is always the impersonation to them of their conscience.

    Pray 12.350 16 ...we seldom have the prayer otherwise than it can be inferred from the man and his fortunes, which are the answer to the prayer, and always accord with it.

    Pray 12.352 10 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune with thee in my lone and silent heart;...

    Pray 12.352 13 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune with thee in my lone and silent heart;...I am always desiring thee.

    Pray 12.352 23 ...O my Father...I am always alone with thee...

    Pray 12.352 24 ...O my Father...thou dost not steal my time by foolishness. I always ask in my heart, where can I find thee?

    Pray 12.353 18 Let the purpose for which I live be always before me;...

    AgMs 12.358 5 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect...

    AgMs 12.358 11 ...[Edmund Hosmer] always needs to be watched lest he should cheat himself.

    AgMs 12.361 5 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction...

    AgMs 12.361 9 ...our [New England] people are...always alert to better themselves....

    AgMs 12.361 16 ...we farmers always know what our interest dictates...

    EurB 12.371 17 Tennyson is always fine...

    EurB 12.373 26 The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it...is always reappearing in literature.

    PPr 12.380 5 ...he is the commander who is always in the mount...

    PPr 12.382 20 ...let [a man's speech] always side with the race...

    PPr 12.383 22 The poet cannot descend into the turbid present without injury to his rarest gifts. Hence that necessity of isolation which genius has always felt.

    PPr 12.386 12 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day. A crisis has always arrived which requires a deus ex machina.

    PPr 12.386 15 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us...

    PPr 12.386 26 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance with his age...

    PPr 12.387 18 The revelation of Reason is this of the unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective aspects; that to the cowering it always cowers, to the daring it opens great avenues.

    Let 12.396 20 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it does not remain a detached object...

    Trag 12.408 17 There must always remain...the hindrance of our private satisfaction by the laws of the world.

    Trag 12.410 15 ...analyze [tragedy];...it is always another person who is tormented.

always-accelerated, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.187 4 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of religion...the summits of science, art and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always-accelerated march.

Amadis de Gaul, n. (1)

    Hist 2.34 25 In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful...

amain, adv. (4)

    Comp 2.104 10 The soul strives amain to live and work through all things.

    Comc 8.172 17 Timur ceased weeping, but Chodscha ceased not, but began now first to weep amain...

    PPo 8.255 14 Round and round this heap of ashes/ Now flies the bird [the phoenix] amain,/ But in that odorous niche of heaven/ Nestles the bird again./

    Schr 10.260 1 The sun and moon shall fall amain/ Like sowers' seeds into his brain,/ There quickened to be born again./

Amaranth, n. (1)

    Thor 10.468 22 [Thoreau] says, [Weeds] have brave names, too,- Ambrosia, Stellaria, Amelanchier, Amaranth, etc.

Amasis, n. (1)

    SwM 4.112 19 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the rivers that flow in.

amass, v. (2)

    WD 7.170 27 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...are given immeasurably to all.

    SMC 11.356 26 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now...amass what a stock of adventures to retail hereafter at the fireside...

amassed, adj. (1)

    QO 8.200 11 Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds...

amassed, v. (4)

    ET5 5.100 27 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in literature and antiquities. A great ability, not amassed on a few giants, but poured into the general mind...

    ET11 5.181 10 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly...

    ET11 5.186 10 ...[English nobility] see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius...

    OA 7.325 14 Little by little [age] has amassed such a fund of merit that it can very well afford to go on its credit when it will.

amassing, v. (2)

    ET10 5.160 8 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.

    Res 8.140 8 What power does Nature not owe to her duration, of amassing infinitesimals into cosmical forces!

amateur, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.78 1 John Kemble said that the worst provincial company of actors would go through a play better than the best amateur company.

amateur, n. (5)

    GoW 4.284 19 [Goethe] is the type of culture, the amateur of all arts and sciences and events;...

    WD 7.182 26 The savant is often an amateur.

    PI 8.31 10 The poet writes from a real experience, the amateur feigns one.

    PC 8.226 19 Every artist was first an amateur.

    FRep 11.512 9 The theatre avails itself of the best talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the ensemble of dramatic effect.

amateurs, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.3 16 It is a proof of the shallowness of the doctrine of beauty as it lies in the minds of our amateurs, that men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.

    F 6.48 16 There is no need for foolish amateurs to fetch me to admire a garden of flowers...

    Pow 6.79 10 It is not question to express our thought, to elect our way, but to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do. Hence the use of drill, and the worthlessness of amateurs to cope with practitioners.

amatory, adj. (3)

    PPo 8.239 17 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control.

    PPo 8.259 6 Of the amatory poetry of Hafiz we must be very sparing in our citations...

    MAng1 12.240 12 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of Dante and Petrarch.


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