Men, Creator of to Men

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

Men, Creator of, n. (1)

    Prch 10.225 12 [The moral sentiment] is that, which being...strongest in the best and most gifted men, we know to be implanted by the Creator of Men.

men, n. (2676)

    Nat 1.3 18 There are new lands, new men, new thoughts.
    Nat 1.4 15 ...speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous.
    Nat 1.4 27 ...all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME, that is... all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
    Nat 1.7 13 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore;...
    Nat 1.12 13 Yet although low, [Commodity]...is the only use of nature which all men apprehend.
    Nat 1.13 24 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country...
    Nat 1.20 8 ...[man] may...abdicate his kingdom, as most men do...
    Nat 1.20 11 All those things for which men plough, build, or sail, obey virtue;...
    Nat 1.23 9 All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world;...
    Nat 1.23 10 All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight.
    Nat 1.27 10 This universal soul [man] calls Reason...we are its property and men.
    Nat 1.29 21 It is this [dependence of language upon nature] which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a...backwoodsman, which all men relish.
    Nat 1.30 21 ...wise men pierce this rotten diction...
    Nat 1.34 2 This relation between the mind and matter...stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men.
    Nat 1.34 3 This relation between the mind and matter...stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men. It appears to men, or it does not appear.
    Nat 1.37 10 ...what rejoicing over us of little men;...
    Nat 1.50 24 The men, the women...are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
    Nat 1.57 5 As objects of science [ideas] are accessible to few men.
    Nat 1.57 6 Yet all men are capable of being raised by piety or by passion, into [ideas'] region.
    Nat 1.63 9 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end. Then the heart resists it, because it balks the affections in denying substantive being to men and women.
    Nat 1.65 21 The poet finds something ridiculous in his delight until he is out of the sight of men.
    Nat 1.69 23 The perception of this class of [spiritual] truths makes the attraction which draws men to science...
    Nat 1.71 4 When men are innocent, life shall be longer...
    Nat 1.71 11 Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men...
    Nat 1.74 10 There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of their fathers...
    AmS 1.82 20 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...
    AmS 1.82 25 ...there is One Man, - present to all particular men only partially...
    AmS 1.85 1 Every day, men and women, conversing - beholding and beholden.
    AmS 1.85 3 The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle [of nature] most engages.
    AmS 1.89 8 Books are written on [a book]...by men of talent...
    AmS 1.89 11 Meek young men grow up in libraries...
    AmS 1.89 15 Meek young men grow up in libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
    AmS 1.90 6 ...[the active soul] every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn.
    AmS 1.92 22 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page.
    AmS 1.94 10 The so-called practical men sneer at speculative men...
    AmS 1.94 15 I have heard it said...that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men [the clergy] do not hear...
    AmS 1.98 4 Years are well spent...in frank intercourse with many men and women;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    AmS 1.100 19 The office of the scholar is...to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
    AmS 1.100 23 Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men...
    AmS 1.102 9 ...whatsoever new verdict Reason...pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this [the scholar] shall hear and promulgate.
    AmS 1.103 11 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks...
    AmS 1.103 16 The poet...is found to have recorded that which men...find true for them also.
    AmS 1.105 17 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
    AmS 1.106 1 The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth...
    AmS 1.106 12 Men are become of no account.
    AmS 1.106 13 Men in history, men in the world of to-day, are bugs...
    AmS 1.106 16 ...in a millennium, one or two men;...
    AmS 1.107 12 Men...very naturally seek money or power;...
    AmS 1.108 2 ...a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.
    AmS 1.108 22 [The universal mind] is one soul which animates all men.
    AmS 1.110 8 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not... when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope;...
    AmS 1.112 23 The most imaginative of men...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
    AmS 1.114 19 Young men of the fairest promise...turn drudges...
    AmS 1.114 27 ...thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts...the huge world will come round to him.
    AmS 1.115 25 A nation of men will for the first time exist...
    AmS 1.115 27 ...each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
    DSA 1.120 3 ...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    DSA 1.126 13 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East;...
    DSA 1.126 19 What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
    DSA 1.133 3 ...all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity...
    DSA 1.134 7 Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done...
    DSA 1.136 5 ...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the famine of our churches;...should be heard...
    DSA 1.136 22 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow...
    DSA 1.137 20 Men go, thought I, where they are wont to go...
    DSA 1.139 12 There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
    DSA 1.140 27 Let me not taint the sincerity of this plea by any oversight of the claims of good men.
    DSA 1.141 4 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men, who minister here and there in the churches...
    DSA 1.142 26 ...what hold the public worship had on men is gone...
    DSA 1.143 10 What was once a mere circumstance, that the best and the worst men in the parish...should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    DSA 1.143 25 ...when men die we do not mention them.
    DSA 1.144 10 All men bless and curse.
    DSA 1.144 23 All men go in flocks to this saint or that poet...
    DSA 1.145 16 ...men can scarcely be convinced there is in them anything divine.
    DSA 1.145 20 ...refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men...
    DSA 1.145 24 Thank God for these good men...
    DSA 1.146 7 ...acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
    DSA 1.146 14 ...when you meet one of these men or women, be to them a divine man;...
    DSA 1.146 22 By trusting your own heart, you shall gain more confidence in other men.
    DSA 1.146 24 ...all men have sublime thoughts;...
    DSA 1.146 25 ...all men value the few real hours of life;...
    DSA 1.147 6 Discharge to men the priestly office, and...you shall be followed with their love...
    DSA 1.147 16 ...almost all men are content with [society's] easy merits;...
    DSA 1.149 6 There are men who rise refreshed on hearing a threat;...
    DSA 1.149 7 There are...men to whom a crisis...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    DSA 1.150 25 ...[Christianity has given us] secondly, the institution of preaching, - the speech of man to men...
    DSA 1.151 2 What hinders that now...wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, you speak the very truth...
    DSA 1.151 5 What hinders that now...you speak the very truth...and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men...
    DSA 1.151 8 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...shall speak in the West also.
    LE 1.155 16 ...a scholar is...the happiest of men.
    LE 1.155 19 [The scholar's] successes are occasions of the purest joy to all men.
    LE 1.156 1 ...the scholar by every thought he thinks extends his dominion into the general mind of men...
    LE 1.156 15 ...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of the intellect.
    LE 1.156 21 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
    LE 1.157 13 ...men here, as elsewhere, are indisposed to innovation...
    LE 1.157 22 ...when [the scholar] comprehends his duties he above all men is a realist...
    LE 1.160 19 The whole value...of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. This is the moral of...the Tennemanns, who give us the story of men or of opinions.
    LE 1.161 12 I console myself...in the paucity of great men...by falling back on these sublime recollections...
    LE 1.163 17 I am tasting the self-same life...which I so admire in other men.
    LE 1.164 2 An intimation of these broad rights is familiar in the sense of injury which men feel in the assumption of any man to limit their possible progress.
    LE 1.164 27 Able men, in general, have good dispositions...
    LE 1.165 6 All men, in the abstract, are just and good;...
    LE 1.165 17 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature; he has only to open his mouth, and it speaks;... All men catch the word...
    LE 1.165 27 Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism...
    LE 1.169 19 All men are poets at heart.
    LE 1.169 23 Men believe in the adaptations of utility, always...
    LE 1.172 13 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large. Then Plato, Bacon, Kant, and the Eclectic Cousin condescend instantly to be men and mere facts.
    LE 1.176 26 A mistake of the main end to which they labor is incident to literary men...
    LE 1.177 21 [The scholar] must work with men in houses...
    LE 1.179 5 The English officers and men looked on with astonishment...
    LE 1.182 14 The man of genius should occupy the whole space between God or pure mind and the multitude of uneducated men.
    LE 1.185 17 What is this Truth you seek? What is this Beauty? men will ask, with derision.
    LE 1.186 1 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of art...as they have died already in a thousand thousand men.
    MN 1.192 20 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is the fruit of higher laws than their will...
    MN 1.192 26 Let there be worse cotton and better men.
    MN 1.193 5 Men stand in awe of the city...
    MN 1.193 10 ...the multitude of men degrade each other...
    MN 1.193 16 ...our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance, as the eyes of men open to their capabilities.
    MN 1.195 16 We demand of men a richness and universality we do not find.
    MN 1.195 17 Great men do not content us.
    MN 1.195 23 How tardily men arrive at any result! how tardily they pass from it to another!
    MN 1.201 22 ...if...it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded.
    MN 1.202 19 ...we feel not much otherwise if, instead of beholding foolish nations, we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their biography.
    MN 1.205 10 ...let [the ocean] wash a shore where wise men dwell, and it is filled with expression;...
    MN 1.207 2 When Chatham leads the debate, men may well listen, because they must listen.
    MN 1.208 14 ...many more men than one [God] harbors in his bosom...
    MN 1.209 19 That well-known voice...governs all men, and none ever caught a glimpse of its form.
    MN 1.211 3 What is best in any work of art but...that which flows from the hour and the occasion, like the eloquence of men in a tumultuous debate?
    MN 1.214 14 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that. All other meanings which base men have put on it are conjectural and false.
    MN 1.217 24 ...the reason why all men honor love is because it looks up and not down;...
    MN 1.219 11 Has anything grand and lasting been done? Who did it? Plainly not any man, but all men...
    MN 1.221 16 Be the lowly ministers of that pure omniscience [the intellect], and deny it not before men.
    MN 1.221 20 Our health and reason as men need our respect to this fact...
    MR 1.227 12 ...beautiful and perfect men we are not now...
    MR 1.230 18 It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society, when one considers the practical impediments that stand in the way of virtuous young men.
    MR 1.232 5 In the island of Cuba...it appears only men are bought for the plantations...
    MR 1.232 15 ...the general system of our trade (apart from the blacker traits, which, I hope, are exceptions...unshared by all reputable men) is a system of selfishness;...
    MR 1.235 13 ...will you...set every man to make his own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle? This would be to put men back into barbarism by their own act.
    MR 1.235 20 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society, if it proceeded from a preference of the agricultural life out of the belief that our primary duties as men could be better discharged in that calling.
    MR 1.235 23 Who could regret to see...a purer taste exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...
    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 1.241 12 Neither would I shut my ears to the plea of...men of study generally;...
    MR 1.241 13 ...in the experience of all men of that class [the learned professions], the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual exertion.
    MR 1.243 11 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] must... postpone his self-indulgence, forewarned and forearmed against that frequent misfortune of men of genius,-the taste for luxury.
    MR 1.248 6 ...we are to see that the world not only fitted the former men, but fits us...
    MR 1.250 2 ...no class more faithless than the scholars or intellectual men.
    MR 1.250 22 As we cannot make a planet...by means of the best... engineers' tools...so neither can we ever construct that heavenly society you prate of out of foolish, sick, selfish men and women, such as we know them to be.
    MR 1.250 25 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist,-not by the men or materials the statesman uses...
    MR 1.250 26 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist,-not by the men or materials the statesman uses, but by men transfigured and raised above themselves by the power of principles.
    MR 1.251 12 The [Arab] women fought like men, and conquered the Roman men.
    MR 1.252 17 See this wide society of laboring men and women.
    MR 1.253 10 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are controlled by designing men...
    MR 1.255 7 ...one day all men will be lovers;...
    MR 1.255 23 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill...
    MR 1.256 15 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever to greater sacrifices...
    LT 1.260 18 ...all the children of men attack the colossus [Conservatism] in their youth...
    LT 1.261 20 We talk of the world, but we mean a few men and women.
    LT 1.264 20 I think that only is real which men love and rejoice in;...
    LT 1.265 22 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear; men of great heart...
    LT 1.265 24 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...men of wide sympathy...
    LT 1.266 1 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough...
    LT 1.266 3 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little. And then truly great men, but with some defect in their composition which neutralizes their whole force.
    LT 1.272 15 ...the origin of all reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man, which, amidst the natural, ever contains the supernatural for men.
    LT 1.274 27 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
    LT 1.275 3 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
    LT 1.276 14 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause;...not on a principle, but on men...
    LT 1.276 17 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was the true and best distinction of this time...
    LT 1.277 1 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods seem to have made this mistake;...
    LT 1.277 19 Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men...
    LT 1.278 1 We do not want actions, but men;...
    LT 1.279 6 All men...are phantasms...beside the sanctuary of the heart.
    LT 1.279 11 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them...
    LT 1.279 15 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them until they see it in some gross form, as in a class of intemperate men...
    LT 1.280 4 ...if I treat all men as gods, how to me can there be any such thing as a slave?
    LT 1.282 17 We do not find the same trait [of perplexity]...in the Greek, Roman, Norman, English periods; no, but in other men a natural firmness.
    LT 1.282 17 The men [of other periods] did not see beyond the need of the hour.
    LT 1.283 5 It is not that men do not wish to act;...
    LT 1.283 15 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation. This could well be borne...if the men were ravished by their thought...
    LT 1.284 10 I think men never loved life less.
    LT 1.285 7 By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air;...
    LT 1.286 4 There was never so great a thought laboring in the breasts of men as now.
    LT 1.288 26 ...we do not know that...only as much as the law enters us, becomes us, are we living men...
    LT 1.289 19 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality, which ever and anon comes to the surface, and forms the grand men, who are the leaders...of the race.
    LT 1.290 9 ...men seem to fear and to shun [the Moral Sentiment] when it comes barely to view in our immediate neighborhood.
    Con 1.301 16 ...men are not philosophers...
    Con 1.301 26 ...we must...suffer men to learn as they have done for six millenniums, a word at time;...
    Con 1.302 12 Here is the fact which men call Fate...
    Con 1.304 24 All men have their root in [the existing social system].
    Con 1.305 13 However men please to style themselves, I see no other than a conservative party.
    Con 1.306 5 ...when this great tendency [conservatism]...is challenged by young men...it must needs seem injurious.
    Con 1.313 5 Who put things on this false basis? No single man, but all men.
    Con 1.313 22 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast, as it had nourished many a lover of the right and many a...teacher of men.
    Con 1.315 27 Then came in the men, and they said, What cheer, brother?
    Con 1.321 19 ...men are misled into a reliance on institutions...
    Con 1.322 5 ...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused... [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the game on.
    Con 1.323 1 ...[war] demonstrates the personal merits of all men.
    Con 1.323 17 ...in peace and a commercial state we depend, not as we ought, on our knowledge and all men's knowledge that we are honest men...
    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.
    Con 1.324 24 I am primarily engaged to myself...to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence and good will at the heart of things...
    Con 1.325 1 ...how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?
    Con 1.325 4 Wherever there are men, are the objects of my study and love.
    Con 1.325 6 Sooner or later all men will be my friends...
    Con 1.326 6 The boldness of the hope men entertain transcends all former experience.
    Tran 1.333 10 Mind is the only reality, of which men and all other natures are better or worse reflectors.
    Tran 1.333 15 Although in his action overpowered by the laws of action, and so, warmly co-operating with men...yet when he speaks...after the order of thought, [the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    Tran 1.335 17 ...if you ask me, Whence am I? I feel like other men my relation to that Fact which cannot be spoken...
    Tran 1.345 11 Talk with a seaman of the hazards to life in his profession and he will ask you, Where are the old sailors? Do you not see that all are young men?
    Tran 1.349 17 As to the general course of living, and the daily employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much virtue in these...
    Tran 1.349 19 ...as no great ends are answered by the men, there is nothing noble in the arts by which they are maintained.
    Tran 1.351 19 In other places other men have encountered sharp trials, and behaved themselves well.
    Tran 1.358 25 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men...
    YA 1.365 8 ...prudent men have begun to see that every American should be educated with a view to the values of land.
    YA 1.366 4 The land...is to...bring us into just relations with men and things.
    YA 1.366 11 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    YA 1.366 13 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has appeared...in men supposed to be absorbed in business...
    YA 1.369 1 In Europe...the land is full of men of the best stock...
    YA 1.369 8 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    YA 1.370 23 To men legislating for the area betwixt the two oceans... somewhat of the gravity of nature will infuse itself into the code.
    YA 1.371 23 Men are narrow and selfish...
    YA 1.374 24 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence... which infatuates the most selfish men to act against their private interest for the public welfare.
    YA 1.377 10 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans, a new order of things springs up;...
    YA 1.377 15 [Traders'] information, their wealth, their correspondence, have made them quite other men than left their native shore.
    YA 1.381 19 ...the farmer is living in the same town with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants.
    YA 1.382 5 Here are Etzlers...who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;-and, on the other side, a multitude of poor men and women seeking work...
    YA 1.382 14 [The Associations] proposed...that all men should take a part in the manual toil...
    YA 1.382 16 [The Associations]...proposed to amend the condition of men by substituting harmonious for hostile industry.
    YA 1.384 20 The actual differences of men must be acknowledged...
    YA 1.384 25 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords, who understand the land and its uses and the applicabilities of men...
    YA 1.385 8 ...many people...are never happier than when difficult practical questions, which embarrass other men, are to be solved.
    YA 1.386 10 How can our young men complain of the poverty of things in New England...
    YA 1.386 14 Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy... does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    YA 1.386 23 In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise.
    YA 1.387 2 It is only their dislike of the pretender, which makes men sometimes unjust to the accomplished man.
    YA 1.387 17 I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart and be the nobility of this land.
    YA 1.387 23 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity, at the risk of being called, by the men of the moment, chimerical and fantastic.
    YA 1.388 6 Every body who comes into our houses savors of these habits; the men, of the market; the women, of the custom.
    YA 1.389 8 Men complain of their suffering, and not of the crime.
    YA 1.391 22 One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience...
    YA 1.394 22 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies, nor will extraordinary persons be slighted or affronted in any company of civilized men.
    YA 1.394 24 ...the system [of English aristocracy] is an invasion of the sentiment of justice and the native rights of men...
    YA 1.395 7 Here stars, here woods, here hills, here animals, here men abound...
    YA 1.395 8 If only the men are employed in conspiring with the designs of the Spirit who led us hither and is leading us still, we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
    Hist 2.3 2 There is one mind common to all individual men.
    Hist 2.4 23 Each new fact in [a man's] private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done...
    Hist 2.5 25 It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things.
    Hist 2.6 19 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    Hist 2.6 26 We sympathize...in the great resistances, the great prosperities of men; because there law was enacted...for us...
    Hist 2.8 8 I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
    Hist 2.12 13 The difference between men is in their principle of association.
    Hist 2.12 14 Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance;...
    Hist 2.12 22 To the poet...all men [are] divine.
    Hist 2.16 6 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
    Hist 2.23 27 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...
    Hist 2.27 21 ...men of God have from time to time walked among men...
    Hist 2.27 22 ...men of God have from time to time walked among men...
    Hist 2.31 12 When the gods come among men, they are not known.
    Hist 2.32 10 ...men and women are only half human.
    Hist 2.32 27 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them.
    Hist 2.33 3 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them, and make the men of routine...
    Hist 2.33 4 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them, and make... the men of sense...
    Hist 2.36 19 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find no men to act on...and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
    SR 2.45 9 ...to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius.
    SR 2.45 17 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they...spoke not what men, but what they thought.
    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 2.47 21 ...we are now men...
    SR 2.49 22 [The self-reliant individual] would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which...would sink like darts into the ear of men...
    SR 2.52 6 ...do not tell me...of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations.
    SR 2.52 9 ...I grudge...the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me...
    SR 2.52 24 Men do what is called a good action...much as they would pay a fine...
    SR 2.55 4 ...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief...
    SR 2.58 22 Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions...
    SR 2.60 27 [A true man] measures you and all men and all events.
    SR 2.63 6 When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
    SR 2.63 13 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to walk among them by a law of his own...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    SR 2.63 16 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...make his own scale of men and things...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    SR 2.68 1 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents...they chance to see...
    SR 2.70 8 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not.
    SR 2.70 10 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all...rich men... who are not.
    SR 2.71 7 Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
    SR 2.71 18 ...[man's genius] goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.
    SR 2.71 27 All men have my blood and I all men's.
    SR 2.72 10 The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity.
    SR 2.75 14 We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state...
    SR 2.75 25 If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises they lose all heart.
    SR 2.75 27 If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined.
    SR 2.76 18 Let a Stoic...tell men they are not leaning willows...
    SR 2.77 5 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...
    SR 2.77 9 In what prayers do men allow themselves!
    SR 2.78 20 Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
    SR 2.78 27 The gods love [the self-helping man] because men hated him.
    SR 2.79 15 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power...it imposes its classification on other men...
    SR 2.81 6 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes, the missionary of wisdom and virtue...
    SR 2.81 9 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he... visits cities and men like a sovereign...
    SR 2.84 10 All men plume themselves on the improvement of society...
    SR 2.84 25 ...compare the health of the two men [American and New Zealander]...
    SR 2.85 27 No greater men are now than ever were.
    SR 2.86 2 A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages;...
    SR 2.86 5 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
    SR 2.86 8 Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men...
    SR 2.86 13 The arts and inventions of each period...do not invigorate men.
    SR 2.87 20 Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property...
    SR 2.89 6 Ask nothing of men...
    SR 2.89 18 Most men gamble with [Fortune]...
    Comp 2.93 13 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...the nature and endowment of all men.
    Comp 2.93 14 It seemed to me...that in [Compensation] might be shown men a ray of divinity...
    Comp 2.94 20 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men...
    Comp 2.95 1 Is it that [the good] are to have leave to pray and praise, to love and serve men? Why, that they can do now.
    Comp 2.95 20 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics.
    Comp 2.95 24 ...men are better than their theology.
    Comp 2.95 27 ...all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate.
    Comp 2.96 2 ...men are wiser than they know.
    Comp 2.99 17 ...do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius?
    Comp 2.103 2 Men call the circumstance the retribution.
    Comp 2.104 18 Men seek to be great;...
    Comp 2.110 26 Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they.
    Comp 2.112 14 Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along...
    Comp 2.117 13 ...no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men until he has suffered from the one and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
    Comp 2.118 25 Men suffer all their life under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated.
    Comp 2.121 20 There is no stunning confutation of [the criminal's] nonsense before men and angels.
    Comp 2.124 3 The heart and soul of all men being one, this bitterness of His and Mine ceases.
    Comp 2.124 20 The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
    Comp 2.125 6 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and no settled character...
    Comp 2.127 5 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest, yielding shade and fruit to wide neighborhoods of men.
    SL 2.134 10 Men of an extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, Not unto us, not unto us.
    SL 2.140 1 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now...
    SL 2.140 8 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.
    SL 2.141 20 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by... outward signs that mark him extraordinary and not in the roll of common men, is fanaticism...
    SL 2.142 18 ...whatever in his apprehension is worth doing, that let [a man] communicate, or men will never know and honor him aright.
    SL 2.142 24 We like only such actions as have already long had the praise of men...
    SL 2.145 10 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate...nor can all the force of men hinder him from taking so much.
    SL 2.145 24 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...saying that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection...
    SL 2.146 13 Men feel and act the consequences of your doctrine without being able to show how they follow.
    SL 2.146 19 We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen. Hence the perfect intelligence that subsists between wise men of remote ages.
    SL 2.146 21 A man cannot bury his meanings so deep in his book but time and like-minded men will find them.
    SL 2.147 23 ...it is not observed...that librarians are wiser men than others.
    SL 2.151 19 Take the place and attitude which belong to you, and all men acquiesce.
    SL 2.153 10 ...if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;...
    SL 2.158 11 What has he done? is the divine question which searches men...
    SL 2.159 9 [A man's] sin...mars all his good impression. Men know not why they do not trust him, but they do not trust him.
    SL 2.161 1 Common men are apologies for men;...
    SL 2.161 2 Common men are apologies for men;...
    SL 2.165 13 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter. He does not therefore defer to the nature of these accidental men...
    SL 2.165 24 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world... marking its own incomparable worth by the slight it casts on these gauds of men;--these all are his...
    Lov1 2.170 18 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women...
    Lov1 2.171 11 Each man sees over his own experience a certain stain of error, whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal.
    Lov1 2.173 26 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate, without any risk such as Milton deplores as incident to scholars and great men.
    Lov1 2.174 18 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    Lov1 2.176 13 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when all business seemed an impertinence, and all the men and women running to and fro in the streets, mere pictures.
    Lov1 2.176 26 In the green solitude [the lover] finds a dearer home than with men...
    Lov1 2.177 16 ...men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under any other circumstances.
    Fdsp 2.195 9 ...the Genius of my life being thus social, the same affinity will exert its energy on whomsoever is as noble as these men and women...
    Fdsp 2.196 14 ...the soul does not respect men as it respects itself.
    Fdsp 2.201 18 In one condemnation of folly stand the whole universe of men.
    Fdsp 2.202 19 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off...
    Fdsp 2.203 9 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad.
    Fdsp 2.203 22 To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
    Fdsp 2.204 14 We are holden to men by every sort of tie...
    Fdsp 2.206 24 I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women variously related to each other...
    Fdsp 2.207 4 You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men...
    Fdsp 2.207 24 No two men but being left alone with each other enter into simpler relations.
    Fdsp 2.207 27 Unrelated men give little joy to each other...
    Fdsp 2.212 24 ...love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
    Fdsp 2.212 24 Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends...
    Fdsp 2.213 12 We may congratulate ourselves that...when we are finished men we shall grasp heroic hands in heroic hands.
    Prd1 2.222 27 A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified; these are wise men.
    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 2.228 10 It is vinegar to the eyes to deal with men of loose and imperfect perception.
    Prd1 2.229 3 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.
    Prd1 2.229 8 I have seen a criticism on some paintings, of which I am reminded when I see the shiftless and unhappy men who are not true to their senses.
    Prd1 2.230 15 The men we call greatest are least in this kingdom [of prudence].
    Prd1 2.231 20 ...society is officered by men of parts, as they are properly called...
    Prd1 2.231 21 ...society is officered by men of parts, as they are properly called, and not by divine men.
    Prd1 2.233 10 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, radiant with the light of an ideal world in which he lives, the first of men; and now oppressed by wants and by sickness, for which he must thank himself.
    Prd1 2.235 20 ...let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal, that he may not stand in bitter and false relations to other men;...
    Prd1 2.236 15 The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by another...
    Prd1 2.237 5 Trust men and they will be true to you;...
    Prd1 2.237 20 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
    Prd1 2.238 14 Far off, men swell, bully and threaten;...
    Prd1 2.239 27 ...really and underneath their external diversities, all men are of one heart and mind.
    Prd1 2.240 2 Wisdom will never let us stand with any man or men on an unfriendly footing.
    Prd1 2.240 9 Scarcely can we say we see new men, new women, approaching us.
    Hsm1 2.251 18 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the hero's] act...
    Hsm1 2.251 21 All prudent men see that the [heroic] action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
    Hsm1 2.253 24 ...the master has amply provided for the reception of the men and their animals...
    Hsm1 2.254 8 These [magnanimous] men fan the flame of human love...
    Hsm1 2.258 5 A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of men...
    Hsm1 2.258 17 We have seen or heard of many extraordinary young men who never ripened...
    Hsm1 2.260 5 All men have wandering impulses...
    Hsm1 2.261 21 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty, in sign that they feel a brotherhood with the great multitude of suffering men.
    Hsm1 2.261 26 ...it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men...
    Hsm1 2.262 27 Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again;...
    OS 2.267 18 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written...
    OS 2.272 14 The influence of the senses has in most men overpowered the mind to that degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable;...
    OS 2.274 12 [The soul] has no dates...nor specialties nor men.
    OS 2.275 2 ...by every throe of growth the man expands there where he works, passing, at each pulsation, classes, populations, of men.
    OS 2.276 3 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.
    OS 2.277 24 There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest...
    OS 2.278 23 Men descend to meet.
    OS 2.281 8 Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment [of the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.
    OS 2.281 9 A thrill passes through all men at the reception of new truth...
    OS 2.281 26 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms...all the families and associations of men...
    OS 2.282 2 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men...
    OS 2.283 5 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...
    OS 2.283 14 Men ask concerning the immortality of the soul...
    OS 2.284 22 By this veil which curtains events [the soul] instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
    OS 2.285 26 ...confronted face to face, accuser and accused, men offer themselves to be judged.
    OS 2.287 10 The great distinction...between men of the world...and a fervent mystic...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    OS 2.287 23 All men stand continually in the expectation of the appearance of such a teacher [who speaks always from within].
    OS 2.288 4 ...the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame...
    OS 2.288 19 [Genius] is...more like and not less like other men.
    OS 2.290 5 From that inspiration [of the soul] the man comes back with a changed tone. He does not talk with men with an eye to their opinion.
    OS 2.291 23 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk.
    OS 2.292 7 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction...of new ideas. They leave them wiser and superior men.
    OS 2.293 24 You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service to which your talent and your taste invite you, the love of men and the hope of fame.
    OS 2.294 13 ...one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men...
    OS 2.295 14 The position men have given to Jesus...is a position of authority.
    OS 2.295 26 We not only affirm that we have few great men, but, absolutely speaking, that we have none;...
    Cir 2.305 5 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then already is our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker. His only redress is forthwith to draw a circle outside of his antagonist. And so men do by themselves.
    Cir 2.305 16 Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
    Cir 2.306 9 There are no fixtures to men, if we appeal to consciousness.
    Cir 2.307 27 How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
    Cir 2.310 6 Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then existing in the minds of men.
    Cir 2.310 7 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon...
    Cir 2.310 27 When each new speaker [in a conversation] strikes a new light...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    Cir 2.311 9 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god and converts the statues into fiery men...
    Cir 2.315 20 ...your bravest sentiment is familiar to the humblest men.
    Cir 2.322 9 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men.
    Int 2.329 9 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it.
    Int 2.330 14 ...the differences between men in natural endowment are insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.
    Int 2.330 25 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men...
    Int 2.332 26 Every trivial fact in [the writer's] private biography...delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.
    Int 2.332 27 Men say, Where did [the writer] get this?...
    Int 2.335 17 ...[the thought] needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to men.
    Int 2.336 6 ...all men have some access to primary truth...
    Int 2.336 10 There is an inequality...between two men and between two moments of the same man, in respect to this faculty [of communication].
    Int 2.337 20 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are! We entertain ourselves with wonderful forms of men...
    Int 2.341 14 ...it is given to few men to be poets...
    Int 2.343 25 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living. Such has Swedenborg...seemed to many young men in this country.
    Int 2.347 10 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...
    Art1 2.357 7 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...
    Art1 2.357 18 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    Art1 2.362 5 Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
    Art1 2.366 13 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and they flee to art...
    Art1 2.367 6 Now men do not see nature to be beautiful...
    Art1 2.367 8 [Now men] abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible...
    Art1 2.368 9 [Beauty] will...spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
    Pt1 3.3 16 ...men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.
    Pt1 3.3 24 ...the intellectual men do not believe in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition.
    Pt1 3.5 3 [The poet] stands among partial men for the complete man...
    Pt1 3.5 5 The young man reveres men of genius, because...they are more himself than he is.
    Pt1 3.5 9 Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
    Pt1 3.5 13 [The poet] is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men sooner or later.
    Pt1 3.5 14 ...all men live by truth...
    Pt1 3.5 22 ...the great majority of men seem to be minors...
    Pt1 3.7 16 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men...
    Pt1 3.7 17 ...some men, namely poets, are natural sayers...
    Pt1 3.8 12 ...we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully...
    Pt1 3.9 1 ...we do not speak now of men of poetical talents...
    Pt1 3.9 18 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics] is the landscape-garden of a modern house...with well-bred men and women standing and sitting in the walks and terraces.
    Pt1 3.9 21 Our poets are men of talents who sing...
    Pt1 3.10 7 ...[the poet] will tell us how it was with him, and all men will be the richer in his fortune.
    Pt1 3.12 10 ...now I shall see men and women...
    Pt1 3.15 13 ...all men have the thoughts whereof the universe is the celebration.
    Pt1 3.15 16 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]?
    Pt1 3.16 10 The inwardness and mystery of this attachment [to nature] drive men of every class to the use of emblems.
    Pt1 3.17 25 The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men;...
    Pt1 3.20 4 ...all men are intelligent of the symbols through which [life] is named;...
    Pt1 3.21 15 [The poet] knows...why the great deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods;...
    Pt1 3.23 21 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far, and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts of men.
    Pt1 3.27 23 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers;...
    Pt1 3.29 4 Milton says that...the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl.
    Pt1 3.30 2 If the imagination intoxicates the poet, it is not inactive in other men.
    Pt1 3.30 5 The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men.
    Pt1 3.30 11 Men have really got a new sense...
    Pt1 3.31 18 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    Pt1 3.33 24 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene. This emancipation is dear to all men...
    Pt1 3.34 6 The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
    Pt1 3.35 16 Swedenborg, of all men in the recent ages, stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought.
    Pt1 3.36 1 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons...
    Pt1 3.36 4 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness; but to each other they appeared as men...
    Pt1 3.36 10 ...the same man or society of men may wear one aspect to themselves and their companions, and a different aspect to higher intelligences.
    Pt1 3.36 21 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me, and perchance to themselves appear upright men;...
    Pt1 3.38 1 Our log-rolling...the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men...are yet unsung.
    Pt1 3.38 23 Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths or methods are ideal and eternal, though few men ever see them;...
    Pt1 3.41 12 [O poet] Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men...
    Exp 3.46 25 Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference.
    Exp 3.47 11 ...the men ask, What's the news? as if the old were so bad.
    Exp 3.51 22 We see young men who owe us a new world...but they never acquit the debt;...
    Exp 3.52 11 Men resist the conclusion in the morning, but adopt it as the evening wears on, that temper prevails over everything of time, place and condition...
    Exp 3.56 25 There is no power of expansion in men.
    Exp 3.57 7 There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men...
    Exp 3.57 9 ...each [man] has his special talent, and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.
    Exp 3.58 20 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy.
    Exp 3.58 23 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy. It would not rake or pitch a ton of hay;...and the men and maidens it left pale and hungry.
    Exp 3.60 8 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    Exp 3.60 17 Let us treat the men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
    Exp 3.60 18 Men live in their fancy...
    Exp 3.61 11 ...a thoughtful man...cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
    Exp 3.66 15 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease. Yet nature will not bear you out. Irresistible nature made men such...
    Exp 3.68 16 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely and not by the direct stroke; men of genius, but not yet accredited;...
    Exp 3.78 12 ...men never speak of crime as lightly as they think;...
    Exp 3.81 22 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men...
    Chr1 3.89 11 Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, are men of great figure and of few deeds.
    Chr1 3.89 19 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance.
    Chr1 3.90 4 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided...which is company for him, so that such men are often solitary...
    Chr1 3.91 20 The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say...
    Chr1 3.94 8 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals. Men exert on each other a similar occult power.
    Chr1 3.96 22 ...men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
    Chr1 3.96 25 Impure men consider life as it is reflected in opinions, events and persons.
    Chr1 3.97 15 Men of character like to hear of their faults;...
    Chr1 3.102 14 Men should be intelligent and earnest.
    Chr1 3.107 23 There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...
    Chr1 3.108 8 Nature never...makes two men alike.
    Chr1 3.108 27 ...we are born believers in great men.
    Chr1 3.109 1 How easily we read in old books, when men were few, of the smallest action of the patriarchs.
    Chr1 3.109 7 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance...
    Chr1 3.110 6 I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
    Chr1 3.110 12 ...he who waits a hundred ages until a sage comes, without doubting, knows men.
    Chr1 3.111 9 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    Chr1 3.111 12 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men...
    Chr1 3.111 16 ...when men shall meet as they ought...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce.
    Chr1 3.111 23 Those relations to the best men...become, in the progress of the character, the most solid enjoyment.
    Chr1 3.111 27 If it were possible to live in right relations with men!...
    Chr1 3.113 18 Men write their names on the world as they are filled with [the force of character].
    Mrs1 3.120 16 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society, running through all the countries of intelligent men...
    Mrs1 3.121 15 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Mrs1 3.121 27 [Good society] is made of the spirit, more than of the talent of men...
    Mrs1 3.123 15 ...in the moving crowd of good society the men of valor and reality are known...
    Mrs1 3.124 18 The rulers of society must be...men of the right Caesarian pattern...
    Mrs1 3.125 21 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is, which...makes itself felt by men of all classes.
    Mrs1 3.126 5 I use these old names [Diogenes, Socrates, Epaminondas], but the men I speak of are my contemporaries.
    Mrs1 3.126 8 ...every collection of men furnishes some example of the class [of gentlemen];...
    Mrs1 3.126 16 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste.
    Mrs1 3.126 18 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating.
    Mrs1 3.127 21 The strong men usually give some allowance even to the petulances of fashion...
    Mrs1 3.127 27 Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain; doubtless with the feeling that fashion is a homage to men of his stamp.
    Mrs1 3.128 6 Great men are not commonly in [fashion's] halls;...
    Mrs1 3.129 15 ...if the people should destroy class after class, until two men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be involuntarily served and copied by the other.
    Mrs1 3.129 24 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence...and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Mrs1 3.131 11 We contemn in turn every other gift of men of the world;...
    Mrs1 3.132 12 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.
    Mrs1 3.136 2 ...emperors and rich men are by no means the most skilful masters of good manners.
    Mrs1 3.138 13 To the leaders of men, the brain as well as the flesh and the heart must furnish a proportion.
    Mrs1 3.138 16 Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs.
    Mrs1 3.139 7 ...[the spirit of the energetic class] respects everything which tends to unite men.
    Mrs1 3.141 15 The favorites of society...are able men...
    Mrs1 3.141 25 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox, who added to his great abilities the most social disposition and real love of men.
    Mrs1 3.143 10 ...it is not to be supposed that men have agreed to be the dupes of anything preposterous;...
    Mrs1 3.145 7 The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees. What if they are in the mouths of selfish men...
    Mrs1 3.150 10 A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.
    Gts 3.160 1 Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
    Gts 3.161 24 This is fit for kings, and rich men who represent kings...to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...
    Nat2 3.170 5 Here [in the forest] we find Nature to be the circumstance which...judges like a god all men that come to her.
    Nat2 3.174 9 These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
    Nat2 3.174 16 In [the stars'] soft glances I see what men strove to realize in some Versailles...
    Nat2 3.174 22 When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
    Nat2 3.177 9 Men are naturally hunters and inquisitive of wood-craft...
    Nat2 3.177 17 ...ordinarily...as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.
    Nat2 3.178 5 The sunset is unlike anything that is underneath it: it wants men.
    Nat2 3.178 9 If there were good men, there would never be this rapture in nature.
    Nat2 3.178 14 It is when...the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
    Nat2 3.180 12 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;... How far off yet is the trilobite! how far the quadruped! how inconceivably remote is man! All duly arrive, and then race after race of men.
    Nat2 3.181 22 ...the trees are imperfect men...
    Nat2 3.181 26 The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated...
    Nat2 3.182 4 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
    Nat2 3.183 8 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks...
    Nat2 3.185 10 ...without this violence of direction which men and women have...no excitement, no efficiency.
    Nat2 3.187 11 ...the craft with which the world is made, runs also into the mind and character of men.
    Nat2 3.187 26 The strong, self-complacent Luther declares with an emphasis not to be mistaken, that God himself cannot do without wise men.
    Nat2 3.191 10 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue sometimes had the headache...
    Nat2 3.191 18 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences...to remove friction has come to be the end. That is the ridicule of rich men;...
    Nat2 3.191 21 ...the masses are not men, but poor men, that is, men who would be rich;...
    Nat2 3.191 22 ...the masses are not men, but poor men, that is, men who would be rich;...
    Nat2 3.192 4 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society, of aimless nations. Were the ends of nature so great and cogent as to exact this immense sacrifice of men?
    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 11 These [universal laws]...stand around us in nature forever embodied, a present sanity to expose and cure the insanity of men.
    Pol1 3.199 11 Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men and institutions rooted like oak-trees to the centre...
    Pol1 3.200 18 We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat: so much life as it has in the character of living men is its force.
    Pol1 3.201 19 The theory of politics which has possessed the mind of men... considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    Pol1 3.204 12 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the highest end of government is the culture of men;...
    Pol1 3.204 13 ...there is an instinctive sense...that if men can be educated, the institutions will share their improvement...
    Pol1 3.205 3 Things have their laws, as well as men;...
    Pol1 3.206 1 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
    Pol1 3.207 12 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living men, from the character and condition of the people...
    Pol1 3.208 3 Good men must not obey the laws too well.
    Pol1 3.209 26 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
    Pol1 3.212 21 Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.
    Pol1 3.213 5 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to the measuring of land...
    Pol1 3.213 25 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government...perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.
    Pol1 3.215 1 ...any laws but those which men make for themselves are laughable.
    Pol1 3.215 16 Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.
    Pol1 3.216 10 [The wise man] needs no army, fort, or navy,--he loves men too well;...
    Pol1 3.216 21 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
    Pol1 3.216 23 [The wise man's] relation to men is angelic;...
    Pol1 3.220 11 ...there will always be a government of force where men are selfish;...
    Pol1 3.220 21 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment...
    Pol1 3.221 16 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable...men of talent and women of superior sentiments cannot hide their contempt.
    Pol1 3.221 20 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.225 14 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture...
    NR 3.226 15 Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find...
    NR 3.226 17 Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
    NR 3.227 14 ...there are no such men as we fable;...
    NR 3.227 18 We consecrate a great deal of nonsense because it was allowed by great men.
    NR 3.227 27 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude, or by courtesy...
    NR 3.228 12 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects, as the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things.
    NR 3.228 19 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected; the men are steel-filings.
    NR 3.229 24 ...we are very sensible of an atmospheric influence in men and in bodies of men, not accounted for in an arithmetical addition of all their measurable properties.
    NR 3.230 7 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...
    NR 3.232 11 The Eleusinian mysteries...the Greek sculpture, show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
    NR 3.233 25 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices, fluid and soul-guided men and women.
    NR 3.234 8 In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
    NR 3.238 15 The recluse thinks of men as having his manner, or as not having his manner;...
    NR 3.238 19 ...when [the recluse] comes into a public assembly he sees that men have very different manners from his own...
    NR 3.240 6 ...in the State and in the schools [democracy] is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.
    NR 3.240 7 ...in the State and in the schools [democracy] is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.
    NR 3.244 6 ...men feign themselves dead...
    NR 3.246 5 We fancy men are individuals;...
    NR 3.248 12 ...I endeavored to show my good men that I liked everything by turns and nothing long;...
    NR 3.248 14 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I loved man, if men seemed to me mice and rats;...
    NR 3.248 17 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I was glad of men of every gift and nobility, but would not live in their arms.
    NER 3.252 8 One apostle thought all men should go to farming...
    NER 3.256 13 This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men;...
    NER 3.258 15 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men,--Greek men, and Roman men...
    NER 3.258 16 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men,--Greek men, and Roman men...
    NER 3.258 18 ...by a wonderful drowsiness of usage [the ancient languages] had exacted the study of all men.
    NER 3.258 24 These things [Latin, Greek, Mathematics] became stereotyped as education, as the manner of men is.
    NER 3.258 26 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...
    NER 3.259 9 Some thousands of young men are graduated at our colleges in this country every year...
    NER 3.260 1 ...the self-made men took even ground at once with the oldest of the regular graduates...
    NER 3.262 19 Now all men are on one side.
    NER 3.264 12 These new associations are composed of men and women of superior talents and sentiments;...
    NER 3.264 23 ...it may easily be questioned...whether the members [of associations] will not necessarily be fractions of men...
    NER 3.265 8 ...the men of less faith could not thus believe, and to such, concert appears the sole specific of strength.
    NER 3.265 27 All the men in the world cannot make a statue walk and speak...
    NER 3.266 4 ...let there be one man, let there be truth in two men, in ten men, then is concert for the first time possible;...
    NER 3.266 21 Men will live and communicate...as by added ethereal power, when once they are united;...
    NER 3.268 2 Men do not believe in a power of education.
    NER 3.269 10 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
    NER 3.269 11 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
    NER 3.270 14 I resist the scepticism of our education and of our educated men.
    NER 3.270 16 I do not believe that the differences of opinion and character in men are organic.
    NER 3.271 1 I believe not in two classes of men...
    NER 3.271 18 What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope...
    NER 3.272 11 Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous...
    NER 3.273 15 Men in all ways are better than they seem.
    NER 3.273 25 What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but...to be...made men of...
    NER 3.275 27 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him...
    NER 3.279 2 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I am satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to vote right.
    NER 3.279 4 I suppose considerate observers, looking at the masses of men in their blameless and in their equivocal actions, will assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    NER 3.280 12 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.
    NER 3.280 14 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    NER 3.280 21 The disparities of power in men are superficial;...
    NER 3.281 5 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
    NER 3.281 12 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess...that his advantage was a knack, which might impose on indolent men but could not impose on lovers of truth;...
    NER 3.281 16 I believe it is the conviction of the purest men that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.
    NER 3.283 3 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
    NER 3.283 12 Men are all secret believers in [the Law]...
    NER 3.284 13 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
    UGM 4.3 1 It is natural to believe in great men.
    UGM 4.3 7 In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet.
    UGM 4.3 10 The world is upheld by the veracity of good men...
    UGM 4.4 20 The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men.
    UGM 4.5 20 Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
    UGM 4.5 23 Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the otherest.
    UGM 4.6 1 A main difference betwixt men is, whether they attend their own affair or not.
    UGM 4.6 11 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty;...
    UGM 4.6 19 It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.
    UGM 4.7 6 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities...
    UGM 4.7 25 Our common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men.
    UGM 4.7 26 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men;...
    UGM 4.8 17 Men have a pictorial or representative quality...
    UGM 4.8 20 Men are...representative; first, of things, and secondly, of ideas.
    UGM 4.12 23 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky.
    UGM 4.13 20 Men are helpful through the intellect and the affections.
    UGM 4.14 22 ...it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions...
    UGM 4.15 25 Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language...
    UGM 4.17 5 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks...
    UGM 4.17 27 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought.
    UGM 4.18 11 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression.
    UGM 4.18 18 The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
    UGM 4.20 3 Between rank and rank of our great men are wide intervals.
    UGM 4.20 13 We swim...on a river of delusions and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men about us are dupes.
    UGM 4.20 21 ...there have been sane men, who enjoyed a rich and related existence.
    UGM 4.20 26 These [great] men correct the delirium of the animal spirits...
    UGM 4.22 26 I admire great men of all classes...
    UGM 4.23 9 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...drawing all men by fascination into tributaries and supporters of his power.
    UGM 4.25 13 Great men are...a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism...
    UGM 4.25 17 Men resemble their contemporaries even more than their progenitors.
    UGM 4.25 26 The like assimilation goes on between men of one town...
    UGM 4.27 7 Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;--other great men...
    UGM 4.28 7 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men...
    UGM 4.29 4 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world...where almost all men are too social and interfering.
    UGM 4.30 15 ...great men:--the word is injurious.
    UGM 4.31 8 Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
    UGM 4.31 22 As to what we call the masses, and common men,--there are no common men.
    UGM 4.31 23 As to what we call the masses, and common men,--there are no common men.
    UGM 4.31 23 All men are at last of a size;...
    UGM 4.32 25 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for;...
    UGM 4.33 9 This is the key to the power of the greatest men,--their spirit diffuses itself.
    UGM 4.33 26 The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away;...
    UGM 4.34 18 ...at last we shall cease to look in men for completeness...
    UGM 4.35 5 ...within the limits of human education and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
    UGM 4.35 6 ...within the limits of human education and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
    UGM 4.35 11 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song, that climate, corn, animals, men, may be milder...
    PPh 4.39 12 Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.
    PPh 4.39 22 Even the men of grander proportion suffer some deduction from the misfortune (shall I say?) of coming after this exhausting generalizer [Plato].
    PPh 4.40 14 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men...
    PPh 4.40 15 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men...
    PPh 4.41 15 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries...
    PPh 4.44 18 ...in proportion to the culture of men they become [Plato's] scholars;...
    PPh 4.45 25 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women talk vehemently and superlatively...
    PPh 4.46 10 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women.
    PPh 4.49 25 Men contemplate distinctions, because they are stupefied with ignorance.
    PPh 4.52 13 The country...of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia;...
    PPh 4.56 27 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself. Whosoever, taught by wise men, shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and foundation of the world, will be in the truth.
    PPh 4.60 24 ...disregarding the honors that most men value...I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato];...
    PPh 4.60 27 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men, to the utmost of my power...to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.
    PPh 4.61 6 ...men see in [Plato] their own dreams and glimpses are made available and made to pass for what they are.
    PPh 4.63 13 I announce to men the Intellect.
    PPh 4.63 19 I give you joy, O sons of men! that truth is altogether wholesome;...
    PPh 4.66 9 Men have their metal, as of gold and silver.
    PPh 4.66 15 Of the five orders of things [said Plato], only four can be taught to the generality of men.
    PPh 4.67 10 Judge whether it is not safer to be instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not, just as it may happen.
    PPh 4.71 13 The young men are prodigiously fond of [Socrates]...
    PPh 4.73 1 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    PPh 4.73 16 ...[Socrates] thought not any evil happened to men of such a magnitude as false opinion respecting the just and unjust.
    PPh 4.77 12 ...you shall feel that Alexander indeed overran, with men and horses, some countries of the planet;...
    PPh 4.77 16 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
    PPh 4.78 15 Men, in proportion to their intellect, have admitted [Plato's] transcendent claims.
    PPh 4.78 18 The way to know [Plato] is to compare him, not with nature, but with other men.
    PNR 4.80 22 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    PNR 4.81 12 ...the succession of individual men is fatal and beautiful...
    PNR 4.84 1 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable; Plato affirms that...profit is intrinsic, though the just conceal his justice from gods and men;...
    PNR 4.84 21 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.
    PNR 4.85 15 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    PNR 4.85 21 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...as respects either of them in itself...concealed both from gods and men, no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    PNR 4.87 15 Before all men, [Plato] saw the intellectual values of the moral sentiment.
    PNR 4.88 20 [Plato's] subtlety commended him to men of thought.
    SwM 4.93 2 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...
    SwM 4.93 11 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of corn and money...
    SwM 4.95 5 All men are commanded by the saint.
    SwM 4.98 4 ...the men of God purchased their science by folly or pain.
    SwM 4.98 20 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons...
    SwM 4.99 1 ...men of large calibre...help us more than balanced mediocre minds.
    SwM 4.101 2 ...[Swedenborg] seems to have kept the friendship of men in power.
    SwM 4.117 27 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    SwM 4.120 7 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods;...
    SwM 4.123 10 [Swedenborg] is superfluously explanatory, and his feeling of the ignorance of men, strangely exaggerated.
    SwM 4.123 10 [Swedenborg] is superfluously explanatory, and his feeling of the ignorance of men, strangely exaggerated. Men take truths of this nature very fast.
    SwM 4.125 17 [To Swedenborg] Bird and beast is...emanation and effluvia of the minds and wills of men there present.
    SwM 4.129 21 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    SwM 4.130 6 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...and flying serpents; literary men are conjurors and charlatans.
    SwM 4.131 5 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied, as much as when a bitterness in men of talent leads to satire...
    SwM 4.131 25 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations;...he saw...the hell of robbers, who kill and boil men;...
    SwM 4.132 14 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries...
    SwM 4.134 7 [Swedenborg's] heavens and hells are dull; fault of want of individualism. The thousand-fold relation of men is not there.
    SwM 4.134 25 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations.
    SwM 4.142 16 [Swedenborg] goes up and down the world of men, a modern Rhadamanthus in gold-headed cane and peruke...
    SwM 4.143 14 With a force of many men, [Swedenborg] could never break the umbilical cord which held him to nature...
    SwM 4.145 7 Do not rely...on prudence, on common sense, the old usage and main chance of men...
    SwM 4.146 6 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men...
    MoS 4.150 3 Each man is born with a predisposition to one or the other of these sides of nature [Sensation or Morals]; and it will easily happen that men will be found devoted to one or the other.
    MoS 4.150 7 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with... cities and persons, and the bringing certain things to pass;--the men of talent and actio
    MoS 4.150 9 Another class [predisposed to Morals]...are men of faith and philosophy...
    MoS 4.150 10 Another class [predisposed to Morals]...are men of faith and philosophy, men of genius.
    MoS 4.150 15 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...
    MoS 4.150 16 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions: other men are rats and mice.
    MoS 4.151 9 It is not strange that these men [predisposed to morals]... should affirm disdainfully the superiority of ideas.
    MoS 4.151 18 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.152 4 To the men of this world...the man of ideas appears out of his reason.
    MoS 4.152 5 ...to the men of practical power...the man of ideas appears out of his reason.
    MoS 4.152 18 After dinner...ideas are...follies of young men...
    MoS 4.152 25 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world.
    MoS 4.152 26 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks.
    MoS 4.153 2 ...the men of the senses revenge themselves on the professors and repay scorn for scorn.
    MoS 4.155 6 [The skeptic] sees the one-sidedness of these men of the street;...
    MoS 4.159 9 Men are a sort of moving plants...
    MoS 4.159 17 Let us have to do with real men and women...
    MoS 4.161 8 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of...what is best in the planet; art and nature, places and events; but mainly men.
    MoS 4.161 22 Men do not confide themselves to boys...
    MoS 4.164 22 Gibbon reckons, in these bigoted times, but two men of liberality in France,--Henry IV. and Montaigne.
    MoS 4.167 16 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough.
    MoS 4.168 3 There have been men with deeper insight [than Montaigne' s];...
    MoS 4.168 15 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work...
    MoS 4.168 19 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence...
    MoS 4.170 2 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe; and that, too, a circulation somewhat chosen, namely among courtiers, soldiers, princes, men of the world and men of wit and generosity.
    MoS 4.170 3 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe; and that, too, a circulation somewhat chosen, namely among courtiers, soldiers, princes, men of the world and men of wit and generosity.
    MoS 4.170 12 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...and men, and events, and life, come to us only because of that thread...
    MoS 4.171 6 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire. ... Therefore he cheers and comforts men...
    MoS 4.171 14 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    MoS 4.174 8 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend, one of the most penetrating of men, finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight...
    MoS 4.179 25 Men are strangely mistimed and misapplied;...
    MoS 4.180 13 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men...
    MoS 4.181 18 Great believers are always reckoned infidels...and really men of no account.
    ShP 4.189 1 Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
    ShP 4.189 5 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
    ShP 4.189 7 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original. Nor does valuable originality consist in unlikeness to other men.
    ShP 4.189 9 ...seeing what men want and sharing their desire, [the hero] adds the needful length of sight and of arm...
    ShP 4.190 11 [A great man] stands where all the eyes of men look one way...
    ShP 4.191 4 Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all have worked for [the great man]...
    ShP 4.193 4 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...which men hear eagerly;...
    ShP 4.197 2 Other men say wise things as well as [the poet];...
    ShP 4.198 26 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes; the crowd of practical and knowing men, who, by correspondence or conversation, are feeding him with evidence, anecdotes and estimates...
    ShP 4.200 19 The nervous language of the Common Law...and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    ShP 4.201 4 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
    ShP 4.202 22 A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the poet of the human race; and the secret was kept as faithfully from poets and intellectual men as from courtiers and frivolous people.
    ShP 4.203 23 Since the constellation of great men who appeared in Greece in the time of Pericles, there was never any such society [as that in Elizabethan England];...
    ShP 4.209 4 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the characters of men, and the influences...which affect their fortunes;...
    ShP 4.209 15 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the confusion of sentiments in the most susceptible, and, at the same time, the most intellectual of men?
    ShP 4.211 9 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...
    ShP 4.212 12 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions.
    ShP 4.215 8 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses;...
    ShP 4.216 12 [Shakespeare's] name suggests joy and emancipation to the heart of men.
    ShP 4.218 2 As long as the question is of talent and mental power, the world of men has not [Shakespeare's] equal to show.
    ShP 4.218 12 Other admirable men have led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man [Shakespeare], in wide contrast.
    ShP 4.218 17 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare]...that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    ShP 4.218 26 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]...
    NMW 4.223 6 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
    NMW 4.224 13 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues: the class of business men in America...
    NMW 4.224 16 The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate Democrat.
    NMW 4.225 15 The man in the street finds in [Napoleon] the qualities and powers of other men in the street.
    NMW 4.227 20 Bonaparte was the idol of common men because he had in transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
    NMW 4.227 22 Bonaparte was the idol of common men because he had in transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
    NMW 4.229 4 [Napoleon] has not lost his native sense and sympathy with things. Men give way before such a man, as before natural events.
    NMW 4.229 6 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...
    NMW 4.229 9 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...and we know how real and solid such men appear in the presence of scholars and grammarians...
    NMW 4.229 10 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...but these men ordinarily lack the power of arrangement...
    NMW 4.229 14 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power...
    NMW 4.230 7 ...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 4.230 9 ...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 13 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority, instead of valuing himself, like inferior men, on his opinionativeness, and waging war with nature.
    NMW 4.231 18 They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
    NMW 4.233 6 Few men have any next;...
    NMW 4.235 24 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences, (as large majorities of men seem to agree,) certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
    NMW 4.242 13 The day of sleepy, selfish policy, ever narrowing the means and opportunities of young men, was ended [in France]...
    NMW 4.242 26 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...
    NMW 4.243 12 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt a desire for men and compeers...
    NMW 4.243 15 In Italy, [Napoleon] sought for men and found none.
    NMW 4.243 16 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men are!
    NMW 4.243 22 ...[Napoleon] said to one of his oldest friends, Men deserve the contempt with which they inspire me.
    NMW 4.245 3 Seventeen men in [Napoleon's] time were raised from common soldiers to the rank of king, marshal, duke, or general;...
    NMW 4.245 20 ...in the prevalence of sense and spirit over stupidity and malversation, all reasonable men have an interest;...
    NMW 4.246 27 We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...
    NMW 4.247 4 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less degrees;...
    NMW 4.247 19 When [Napoleon] appeared it was the belief of all military men that there could be nothing new in war;...
    NMW 4.247 20 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...
    NMW 4.247 27 I think all men know better than they do;...
    NMW 4.248 11 What creates great difficulty, [Napoleon] remarks, in the profession of the land-commander, is the necessity of feeding so many men and animals.
    NMW 4.250 17 To the philosophers [Napoleon] readily yielded all that was proved against religion as the work of men and time...
    NMW 4.250 23 [Bonaparte] delighted in the conversation of men of science...
    NMW 4.250 24 ...the men of letters [Bonaparte] slighted;...
    NMW 4.252 25 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    NMW 4.253 4 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men every where...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    NMW 4.254 23 [Napoleon's] theory of influence is not flattering. There are two levers for moving men,--interest and fear.
    NMW 4.255 7 ...men should be firm in heart and purpose [said Napoleon], or they should have nothing to do with war and government.
    NMW 4.255 18 ...[Napoleon]...rubbed his hands with joy when he had intercepted some morsel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him...
    NMW 4.255 27 [Napoleon] had the habit...pulling the ears and whiskers of men...
    NMW 4.256 12 ...Bonaparte represents the democrat, or the party of men of business...
    NMW 4.257 10 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power, of these...immolated millions of men...
    NMW 4.257 19 ...when men saw that after victory was another war;...they deserted [Napoleon].
    NMW 4.257 25 Men found that [Napoleon's] absorbing egotism was deadly to all other men.
    NMW 4.257 26 Men found that [Napoleon's] absorbing egotism was deadly to all other men.
    NMW 4.258 26 Only that good profits...which serves all men.
    GoW 4.262 18 ...besides the universal joy of conversation, some men are born with exalted powers for this second creation. Men are born to write.
    GoW 4.262 19 Men are born to write.
    GoW 4.265 26 [The scholar]...must also wish with other men to stand well with his contemporaries.
    GoW 4.268 13 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for.
    GoW 4.268 24 Able men do not care in what kind a man is able, so only that he is able.
    GoW 4.269 3 ...men are cordial in their recognition and welcome of the intellectual accomplishments.
    GoW 4.270 2 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some reply to these questions may be furnished by looking over the list of men of literary genius in our age.
    GoW 4.277 7 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil] which had hovered in shadow about the habitations of men ever since there were men, was pure intellect, applied...to the service of the senses...
    GoW 4.277 18 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    GoW 4.278 10 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister is] A very provoking book to the curiosity of young men of genius...
    GoW 4.280 11 The book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] treats only of the ordinary affairs of men...
    GoW 4.280 27 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent.
    GoW 4.282 15 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...
    GoW 4.283 4 This earnestness enables [the Germans] to outsee men of much more talent.
    GoW 4.283 8 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France, adopt their study and their side with a certain levity...
    GoW 4.284 8 Goethe can never be dear to men.
    GoW 4.284 15 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...having one test for all men,--What can you teach me?
    GoW 4.288 22 There is a slight blush of shame on the cheek of good men and aspiring men...
    GoW 4.289 14 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country... taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    GoW 4.290 13 No mortgage, or attainder, will hold on men or hours.
    GoW 4.290 15 ...the former great men call to us affectionately.
    GoW 4.290 20 The secret of genius is...in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality and a purpose;...
    ET1 5.3 19 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh and of the Edinburgh Review...
    ET1 5.3 20 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh and of the Edinburgh Review...
    ET1 5.8 18 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...
    ET1 5.17 19 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.
    ET1 5.17 20 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do.
    ET1 5.18 26 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject. But it turned out good men.
    ET1 5.20 9 ...I [Wordsworth] fear [the Americans] lack a class of men of leisure...
    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...
    ET3 5.35 23 The culture of the day, the thoughts and aims of men, are English thoughts and aims.
    ET3 5.38 22 Charles the Second said, [English temperature] invited men abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another country.
    ET4 5.44 11 The individuals at the extremes of divergence in one race of men are as unlike as the wolf to the lapdog.
    ET4 5.44 18 ...Mr. Pickering, who lately in our [Wilkes] Exploring Expedition thinks he saw all the kinds of men that can be on the planet, makes eleven [races].
    ET4 5.45 15 [The English] are free forcible men...
    ET4 5.45 21 It has been denied that the English have genius. Be it as it may, men of vast intellect have been born on their soil...
    ET4 5.46 13 Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race.
    ET4 5.47 8 How came such men as King Alfred, and Roger Bacon...
    ET4 5.47 15 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these delicate natures? was it the air? was it the sea? was it the parentage? For it is certain that these men are samples of their contemporaries.
    ET4 5.47 20 ...no genius can long or often utter any thing which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    ET4 5.49 12 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality...
    ET4 5.49 27 ...we flatter the self-love of men and nations by the legend of pure races...
    ET4 5.50 23 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed; the names of men are of different nations...
    ET4 5.53 3 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses...are distinctive English...
    ET4 5.54 16 I found plenty of well-marked English types...robust men, with faces cut like a die...
    ET4 5.56 11 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET4 5.59 20 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea...
    ET4 5.60 14 ...the foundations of the new civility were to be laid by the most savage men.
    ET4 5.60 16 The Normans came out of France into England worse men than they went into it one hundred and sixty years before.
    ET4 5.61 4 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans]...
    ET4 5.61 14 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...
    ET4 5.61 21 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him;...
    ET4 5.61 23 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him; but Norway was so emptied then, that such men have not since been to find in the country...
    ET4 5.65 8 [The English] are bigger men than the Americans.
    ET4 5.66 8 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    ET4 5.69 6 The old [English] men are as red as roses...
    ET4 5.70 18 Men and women [in England] walk with infatuation.
    ET4 5.71 2 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These men have written the game-books of all countries...
    ET4 5.71 9 I suppose the dogs and horses [in England] must be thanked for the fact that the men have muscles almost as tough and supple as their own.
    ET4 5.71 15 Men of animal nature rely, like animals, on their instincts.
    ET4 5.72 4 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    ET4 5.73 4 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
    ET5 5.76 20 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls,--a kind of goblin men with vast power of work and skilful production...
    ET5 5.78 6 The people [of England] have that nervous bilious temperament which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make its possessor subservient to the will of others.
    ET5 5.80 18 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson...would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger...
    ET5 5.86 9 ...the English can put more men into the rank, on the day of action, on the field of battle, than any other army.
    ET5 5.86 21 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them;...
    ET5 5.86 26 ...conscious that no race of better men exists, [the English] rely most on the simplest means...
    ET5 5.89 15 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
    ET5 5.89 20 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail, and aims at perfection in that; not content unless he has something in which he thinks he surpasses all other men.
    ET5 5.93 23 [The English] have a wealth of men to fill important posts...
    ET5 5.98 8 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;-- made-up men with made-up manners;...
    ET5 5.98 16 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as water in a sluice-way...
    ET5 5.100 17 The island [England] has produced two or three of the greatest men that ever existed...
    ET5 5.100 19 Men [in England] quickly embodied what Newton found out, in Greenwich observatories...
    ET6 5.102 2 I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
    ET6 5.103 6 Machinery has been applied to all work [in England], and carried to such perfection that little is left for the men but to mind the engines...
    ET6 5.103 13 ...rule of court and shop-rule have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
    ET6 5.103 15 A terrible machine has possessed itself of the ground, the air, the men and women [in England]...
    ET6 5.103 26 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain.
    ET6 5.108 13 ...as the [English] men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.
    ET6 5.110 14 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET6 5.111 16 A sea-shell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men.
    ET6 5.115 2 ...[at an English dress-dinner] one meets now and then with polished men who know every thing...
    ET7 5.116 20 Private men [in England] keep their promises...
    ET7 5.120 26 In the power of saying rude truth...no men surpass [the English].
    ET7 5.121 26 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men.
    ET7 5.123 20 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled by the democratic whimsy in this country which I have noticed to be shared by men sane on other points, that the English are at the bottom of the agitation of slavery...
    ET8 5.130 10 [The English] are...in all things very much steeped in their temperament, like men hardly awaked from deep sleep, which they enjoy.
    ET8 5.132 7 The young [English] men have a rude health which runs into peccant humors.
    ET8 5.134 10 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of aplomb and reserves...
    ET8 5.136 2 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy.
    ET8 5.137 26 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be who do not forget a debt...
    ET8 5.139 9 Even the scale of expense on which people live, and to which scholars and professional men conform, proves the tension of [English] muscle...
    ET8 5.139 14 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...
    ET8 5.139 18 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
    ET8 5.140 2 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...
    ET8 5.143 1 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
    ET9 5.145 14 A much older traveller...says... [The English] think that there are no other men than themselves...
    ET9 5.146 2 I suppose that all men of English blood in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are not French natives.
    ET9 5.148 16 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
    ET9 5.150 6 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer. There are really no limits to this conceit, though brighter men among them make painful efforts to be candid.
    ET9 5.151 20 Aesop and Montaigne, Cervantes and Saadi are men of the world;...
    ET10 5.153 20 [The English] do not wish to be represented except by opulent men.
    ET10 5.158 21 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and the machine dispensed with the work of ninety-nine men;...
    ET10 5.158 23 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before. The loom was improved further. But the men would sometimes strike for wages and combine against the masters...
    ET10 5.159 19 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
    ET10 5.159 21 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
    ET10 5.161 20 Steam has enabled men to choose what law they will live under.
    ET10 5.162 16 ...old energy of the Norse race [in England] arms itself with these magnificent powers [of steam]; new men prove an overmatch for the land-owner...
    ET10 5.166 14 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves;...
    ET10 5.166 15 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred strong, and that wealth of men is represented again in the faculty of each individual...
    ET10 5.167 20 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords. Then society is admonished...that the best political economy is care and culture of men;...
    ET11 5.174 27 The things these English have done were not done...without wisdom and conduct; and the first hands...were often challenged to show their right to their honors, or yield them to better men.
    ET11 5.175 3 He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran, when he carried all his men over the river on his back.
    ET11 5.176 2 [French and English nobles] were looked on as men who played high for a great stake.
    ET11 5.183 21 ...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them?
    ET11 5.184 5 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that...men of rank were sworn special constables with the rest.
    ET11 5.185 19 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men...
    ET11 5.185 22 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... and, when men of any ability or ambition, have been consulted in the conduct of every important action.
    ET11 5.186 8 ...if [English nobility] never hear plain truth from men, they see the best of everything...
    ET11 5.186 24 [The English upper classes] have...the power to command... the presence of the most accomplished men in their festive meetings.
    ET11 5.187 16 On general grounds, whatever tends to form manners or to finish men, has a great value.
    ET11 5.190 11 Penshurst still shines for us, and its Christmas revels, where logs not burn, but men.
    ET11 5.190 20 In the roll of [English] nobles are found...men of solid virtues and of lofty sentiments;...
    ET11 5.191 12 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls. The young men sat uppermost, the old serious lords were out of favor.
    ET11 5.192 15 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET11 5.193 13 Even peers who are men of worth and public spirit [in England] are overtaken and embarrassed by their vast expense.
    ET11 5.194 8 I suppose...that a feeling of self-respect is driving cultivated men out of this society [of English noblemen]...
    ET11 5.195 3 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices, and this down to the accession of William of Orange. But graver men appear to have trained their sons for civil affairs.
    ET11 5.195 27 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.
    ET11 5.196 10 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class.
    ET11 5.197 25 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England]...the titles of lordship are getting musty and cumbersome. I wonder that sensible men have not been already impatient of them.
    ET12 5.199 20 I saw several faithful, high-minded young men [at Oxford]...
    ET12 5.200 2 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men...
    ET12 5.200 13 It is a curious proof of the English use and wont...that these young men [at Oxford] are locked up every night at nine o'clock...
    ET12 5.200 17 ...out of twelve hundred young men [at Oxford]...a duel has never occurred.
    ET12 5.203 2 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, They called on Lord Eldon. ... ...he said, your men have probably already contributed all they can spare; I can as well give the rest...
    ET12 5.204 17 The reading men [at Oxford] are kept, by hard walking, hard riding and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition...
    ET12 5.206 7 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks...
    ET12 5.207 18 The men [English students] have learned accuracy and comprehension, logic, and pace, or speed of working.
    ET12 5.207 22 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...
    ET12 5.209 20 Oxford...shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...
    ET12 5.210 23 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men...
    ET12 5.210 24 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men, and three or four hundred well-educated men.
    ET12 5.212 8 ...the great number of cultivated men [in England] keep each other up to a high standard.
    ET12 5.212 10 The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
    ET13 5.214 21 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?
    ET13 5.214 22 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?
    ET13 5.217 20 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service...in cheering and refining men...
    ET13 5.219 18 ...whilst [the Church] endears itself thus to men of more taste than activity, the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to its support...
    ET13 5.219 23 Good churches are not built by bad men;...
    ET13 5.220 2 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men;...
    ET13 5.220 17 ...the age...of the Sherlocks and Butlers, is gone. Silent revolutions in opinion have made it impossible that men like these should return...
    ET13 5.222 14 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
    ET13 5.222 19 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET13 5.226 14 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...
    ET13 5.228 18 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe...and the alienation of such men [the educated class] from the church became complete.
    ET14 5.238 14 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies; and it renews itself in Britain. The poets, of course, are of one part; the men of the world, of the other.
    ET14 5.239 26 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists.
    ET14 5.240 1 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists. Then politics and commerce will absorb from the educated class men of talents without genius, precisely because such have no resistance.
    ET14 5.243 24 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws...
    ET14 5.244 8 ...a bad general wants myriads of men and miles of redoubts to compensate the inspirations of courage and conduct.
    ET14 5.248 12 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive to the imaginations of men...
    ET14 5.250 6 ...where impatience of the tricks of men makes Nemesis amiable...the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
    ET14 5.251 12 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men, whose relation to literature was purely accidental...
    ET14 5.252 2 ...[the English] are the most conditioned men...
    ET15 5.262 14 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs...
    ET15 5.263 4 [Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of the professions, the violent interest which all men take in politics...
    ET15 5.266 6 Our entertainer [at the London Times] confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment, in which, I think, they employed a hundred and twenty men.
    ET15 5.266 12 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men.
    ET15 5.267 15 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University...
    ET15 5.268 1 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom.
    ET15 5.272 14 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...it might not have so many men of rank among its contributors, but genius would be its cordial and invincible ally;...
    ET15 5.272 24 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] it would have the authority which is claimed for that dream of good men not yet come to pass...
    ET16 5.274 13 As soon as men begin to talk of art, architecture and antiquities, nothing good comes of it [according to Carlyle].
    ET16 5.279 8 ...a thousand years hence, men will thank this age for the accurate history [of Stonehenge].
    ET16 5.280 1 [Carlyle] can see, as he reads [the Acta Sanctorum], the old Saint of Iona sitting there and writing, a man to men.
    ET16 5.280 2 The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those times believed in God...
    ET16 5.280 6 [Carlyle] fancied that greater men had lived in England than any of her writers;...
    ET16 5.280 13 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers, and late as it was, men and women were out attempting to protect their spread windrows.
    ET16 5.283 11 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...
    ET16 5.283 15 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons, with paddies to help...
    ET16 5.283 18 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything remarkable. I suppose there were as good men a thousand years ago.
    ET16 5.283 25 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors, for keeping these broad plains a wretched sheep-walk when so many thousands of English men were hungry and wanted labor.
    ET16 5.287 17 I can easily see the bankruptcy of the vulgar musket-worship,-- though great men be musket-worshippers;...
    ET17 5.291 3 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits], now revised after seven busy years have much changed men and things in England, I have abstained from reference to persons...
    ET17 5.292 21 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society.
    ET17 5.292 27 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science, Robert Brown, Owen, Sedgwick...
    ET17 5.297 5 ...[in London] you will hear from different literary men that Wordsworth had no personal friend...
    ET18 5.299 16 Truth in private life, untruth in public, marks these home-loving men [the English].
    ET18 5.300 21 Men and women were convicted [in England] of poisoning scores of children for burial-fees.
    ET18 5.300 23 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape...
    ET18 5.303 1 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war...what clerks and scholars! No one man and no few men can represent them.
    ET18 5.303 10 ...[Englishmen's] speech seems destined to be the universal language of men.
    ET18 5.307 4 ...now we say that the right measures of England are the men it bred;...
    ET18 5.307 5 ...[England] has yielded more able men in five hundred years than any other nation;...
    ET18 5.307 8 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
    ET18 5.307 9 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
    ET18 5.307 16 ...the American people do not yield better or more able men...than the English.
    ET19 5.312 16 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air but robust men and virtuous women...
    F 6.3 4 ...four or five noted men were each reading a discourse...on the Spirit of the Times.
    F 6.3 21 We are fired with the hope to reform men.
    F 6.5 5 Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons...
    F 6.5 23 Wise men feel that there is something which cannot be talked or voted away...
    F 6.7 18 At Lisbon an earthquake killed men like flies.
    F 6.7 23 ...the sword of the climate...at New Orleans, cut off men like a massacre.
    F 6.10 18 Men are what their mothers made them.
    F 6.11 15 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force...
    F 6.11 22 Most men and most women are merely one couple more.
    F 6.17 25 The air is full of men.
    F 6.18 7 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus...Laplace, are not new men...
    F 6.18 8 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus...Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men...
    F 6.19 15 I seemed in the height of a tempest to see men overboard struggling in the waves...
    F 6.23 12 ...nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are...
    F 6.26 12 [The mind] dates from itself; not from former men...
    F 6.26 13 [The mind] dates from itself; not from...better men...
    F 6.26 16 The world of men show like a comedy without laughter...
    F 6.27 3 ...now we are as men in a balloon...
    F 6.27 19 [Thought] is poured into the souls of all men...
    F 6.27 20 [Thought] is poured into the souls of all men, as the soul itself which constitutes them men.
    F 6.28 7 Of two men...he whose thought is deepest will be the strongest character.
    F 6.31 12 What good, honest, generous men at home, will be wolves and foxes on 'Change!
    F 6.31 13 What pious men in the parlor will vote for what reprobates at the polls!
    F 6.32 13 The cold will...make you foremost men of time.
    F 6.34 4 [Steam] could be used to...compel other devils far more reluctant... namely...the labors of all men in the world;...
    F 6.39 10 ...new men come.
    F 6.39 14 The ulterior aim...the correlation by which planets subside and crystallize, then animate beasts and men,-will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
    F 6.40 13 All the toys that infatuate men and which they play for...are the selfsame thing...
    F 6.40 17 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men are made willing to have their heads broke...the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
    F 6.43 1 Each of these men, if they were transparent, would seem to you... walking cities...
    F 6.43 2 Each of these men, if they were transparent, would seem to you not so much men as walking cities...
    F 6.44 5 The races of men rise out of the ground preoccupied with a thought which rules them...
    F 6.44 11 The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other.
    F 6.46 4 ...if the soule of proper kind/ Be so parfite as men find,/ That it wot what is to come/...
    F 6.46 21 ...year after year, we find two men, two women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each other.
    F 6.48 25 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.
    Pow 6.53 4 There are men who by their sympathetic attractions carry nations with them...
    Pow 6.53 9 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers...
    Pow 6.54 4 All successful men have agreed in one thing,--they were causationists.
    Pow 6.54 15 The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of the laws.
    Pow 6.54 23 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men at all times...
    Pow 6.56 18 A man who knows men, can talk well on politics, trade, law, war, religion.
    Pow 6.56 19 ...everywhere men are led in the same manners.
    Pow 6.57 7 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are covered with barks that night and day are drifted to this point. That is poured into its lap which other men lie plotting for.
    Pow 6.57 27 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
    Pow 6.58 2 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
    Pow 6.58 20 ...Shakspeare was theatre-manager and used the labor of many young men, as well as the playbooks.
    Pow 6.63 14 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    Pow 6.65 4 ...churchmen and men of refinement, it seems agreed, are not fit persons to send to Congress.
    Pow 6.65 7 Men in power have no opinions...
    Pow 6.68 11 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood cannot live on nuts, herb-tea, and elegies;...
    Pow 6.68 21 Some men cannot endure an hour of calm at sea.
    Pow 6.72 7 Of the sixty thousand men making [Napoleon's] army at Eylau, it seems some thirty thousand were thieves and burglars.
    Pow 6.72 9 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...
    Pow 6.76 6 Many men are knowing, many are apprehensive and tenacious, but they do not rush to a decision.
    Pow 6.76 15 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Pow 6.78 27 Men whose opinion is valued on 'Change are only such as have a special experience...
    Pow 6.79 25 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Pow 6.79 27 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were by no means men of the largest literary talent...
    Pow 6.80 6 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point or by working power, over multitudes of superior men...
    Wth 6.89 9 He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men...
    Wth 6.89 9 He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors...of men in distant countries and in past times.
    Wth 6.91 23 The world is full of fops...who had persuaded beauties and men of genius to wear their fop livery;...
    Wth 6.92 1 ...wise men are not wise at all hours...
    Wth 6.92 15 The mechanic at his bench...deals on even terms with men of any condition.
    Wth 6.93 7 Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves...
    Wth 6.93 20 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out. Few men on the planet have more truly belonged to it.
    Wth 6.93 25 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey...
    Wth 6.93 27 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey,--the monomaniacs who talk up their project in marts and offices and entreat men to subscribe...
    Wth 6.94 4 ...how did North America get netted with iron rails, except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?
    Wth 6.94 21 To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race.
    Wth 6.95 25 I have never seen a man as rich as all men ought to be...
    Wth 6.96 1 ...if men should take these moralists at their word and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    Wth 6.96 5 Men are urged by their ideas to acquire the command over nature.
    Wth 6.96 12 It is the interest of all men that there should be Vaticans and Louvres full of noble works of art;...
    Wth 6.97 7 Some men are born to own...
    Wth 6.97 21 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
    Wth 6.97 27 There are many articles good for occasional use, which few men are able to own.
    Wth 6.98 21 ...the use which any man can make of [pictures, engravings, statues and casts] is rare, and their value...is much enhanced by the numbers of men who can share their enjoyment.
    Wth 6.99 22 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
    Wth 6.100 2 Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play, which few men can play well.
    Wth 6.100 9 Men talk as if there were some magic about [making money]...
    Wth 6.101 5 ...the true and only power, whether composed of money, water or men; it is all alike [said the Marseilles banker];...
    Wth 6.104 18 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Wth 6.110 13 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages. Then we refuse to employ these poor [immigrant] men.
    Wth 6.112 18 The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work;...
    Wth 6.114 9 Pride...can talk with poor men...
    Wth 6.114 11 ...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace...
    Wth 6.114 23 We had in this region, twenty years ago, among our educated men, a sort of Arcadian fanaticism...
    Wth 6.118 23 When men now alive were born, the farm yielded everything that was consumed on it.
    Ctr 6.133 20 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it...
    Ctr 6.133 23 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to...exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
    Ctr 6.135 7 ...most men are afflicted with a coldness, an incuriosity, as soon as any object does not connect with their self-love.
    Ctr 6.135 19 In Boston the question of life is the names of some eight or ten men.
    Ctr 6.136 11 Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!
    Ctr 6.137 22 We must...meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.
    Ctr 6.139 5 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world, with men of merit...
    Ctr 6.139 22 ...by systematic discipline all men may be made heroes...
    Ctr 6.140 5 ...men are valued precisely as they exert onward or meliorating force.
    Ctr 6.141 25 The best heads that ever existed...were well-read, universally educated men...
    Ctr 6.144 21 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither. His easy superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite countervail to him this imaginary defect.
    Ctr 6.145 2 ...men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own...
    Ctr 6.146 5 ...for some men, travel may be useful.
    Ctr 6.146 7 Some men are made for couriers, exchangers, envoys...
    Ctr 6.146 19 ...boys and men of that condition [who have grown up on a farm, which they have never left] look upon work on a railroad...as opportunity.
    Ctr 6.147 10 One use of travel is to recommend the books and works of home...and another, to find men.
    Ctr 6.147 13 ...knowledge and fine moral quality [nature] lodges in distant men.
    Ctr 6.150 1 The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country...
    Ctr 6.150 3 The head of a commercial house...is brought into daily contact with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section...
    Ctr 6.150 7 ...we must remember the high social possibilities of a million of men.
    Ctr 6.151 15 ...dress makes a little restraint; men will not commit themselves.
    Ctr 6.151 17 ...the box-coat is like wine, it unlocks the tongue, and men say what they think.
    Ctr 6.151 25 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./ Not much otherwise Milnes writes in the Lay of the Humble,-- To me men are for what they are,/ They wear no masks with me./
    Ctr 6.152 14 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses...personal familiarity with good men in all parts of the world...
    Ctr 6.156 3 He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men...
    Ctr 6.158 17 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions, which pass for more to the people than to me. We see this abstraction in scholars, as a matter of course; but what a charm it adds when observed in practical men.
    Ctr 6.162 21 [The finished man of the world]...values men only as channels of power.
    Ctr 6.163 23 The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women;...
    Ctr 6.164 11 The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
    Ctr 6.165 15 Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men.
    Ctr 6.165 18 We call these millions men; but they are not yet men.
    Bhr 6.167 3 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal/...
    Bhr 6.170 3 Manners are very communicable; men catch them from each other.
    Bhr 6.173 7 I have seen men who neigh like a horse when you contradict them...
    Bhr 6.175 20 Tender men sometimes have strong wills.
    Bhr 6.177 5 Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
    Bhr 6.177 9 Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.
    Bhr 6.177 23 In Siberia a late traveller found men who could see the satellites of Jupiter with their unarmed eye.
    Bhr 6.179 26 The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues...
    Bhr 6.181 12 ...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...
    Bhr 6.181 17 The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
    Bhr 6.184 14 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles, wherein, after the close of the day's business, men and women meet at leisure...
    Bhr 6.185 27 Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance.
    Bhr 6.186 16 Some men appear to feel that they belong to a Pariah caste.
    Bhr 6.187 17 Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
    Bhr 6.190 8 Men take each other's measure, when they meet for the first time...
    Bhr 6.190 14 ...men do not convince by their argument...
    Wsp 6.199 11 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving late/...
    Wsp 6.202 3 If the Divine Providence has hid from men neither disease nor deformity nor corrupt society...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely as they stand...
    Wsp 6.203 2 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web.
    Wsp 6.204 4 Men are loyal.
    Wsp 6.207 20 I do not find the religions of men at this moment very creditable to them...
    Wsp 6.208 9 In our large cities the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers and appetites walking.
    Wsp 6.212 12 ...[even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
    Wsp 6.212 12 ...the official men can in no wise help you in any question of to-day...
    Wsp 6.212 21 It has been charged that a want of sincerity in the leading men is a vice general throughout American society.
    Wsp 6.213 17 There is...a simple...presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...and to this homage there is a consent of all thoughtful and just men in all ages and conditions.
    Wsp 6.215 8 Men talk of mere morality,--which is much as if one should say, Poor God, with nobody to help him.
    Wsp 6.216 19 It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district;...
    Wsp 6.217 24 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
    Wsp 6.218 1 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent. Hence the extraordinary blunders and final wrong-head into which men spoiled by ambition usually fall.
    Wsp 6.218 12 If your eye is on the eternal...your opinions and actions will have a beauty which no learning or combined advantages of other men can rival.
    Wsp 6.220 4 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward. And this appears in a class of facts which concerns all men, within and above their creeds.
    Wsp 6.220 6 Shallow men believe in luck...
    Wsp 6.220 10 Strong men believe in cause and effect.
    Wsp 6.222 12 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. ... This is the peril of New York...to young men.
    Wsp 6.223 6 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out; then the false relations in which the offender is put to other men;...
    Wsp 6.225 23 In every variety of human employment...there are the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    Wsp 6.226 5 Men talk as if victory were something fortunate.
    Wsp 6.227 6 As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity...
    Wsp 6.227 17 [As we grow older] We have...an ear which hears not what men say, but hears what they do not say.
    Wsp 6.231 20 Fear God, and where you go, men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
    Wsp 6.234 1 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall wear/ On their heads the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust.
    Wsp 6.234 19 [Benedict] had no designs on the future, neither for what he should do to men, nor for what men should do for him.
    Wsp 6.238 7 The great class...the men who could not make their hands meet around their objects...suggest what they cannot execute.
    Wsp 6.239 22 Men are too often unfit to live...
    Wsp 6.241 13 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...the church of men to come...
    CbW 6.243 8 ...Ever from one who comes to-morrow/ Men wait their good and truth to borrow./
    CbW 6.245 17 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.
    CbW 6.246 17 ...it is only as [a man] turns his back on us and on all men... that any good can come to him.
    CbW 6.248 3 Mirabeau said, Why should we feel ourselves to be men, unless it be to succeed in everything, everywhere.
    CbW 6.248 10 Nothing [said Mirabeau] is impossible to the man who can will. Is that necessary? That shall be:--this is the only law of success. Whoever said it, this is in the right key. But this is not the tone and genius of the men in the street.
    CbW 6.248 11 The men we meet are coarse and torpid.
    CbW 6.249 14 I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men only...
    CbW 6.249 23 ...let us have the considerate vote of single men spoken on their honor and their conscience.
    CbW 6.250 10 Napoleon was called by his men Cent Mille.
    CbW 6.250 22 The more difficulty there is in creating good men, the more they are used when they come.
    CbW 6.251 8 The good men are employed for private centres of use...
    CbW 6.252 24 ...this beast-force...has provoked in every age...the tears of good men.
    CbW 6.252 26 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times, like Socrates, with his famous irony;...
    CbW 6.254 10 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...
    CbW 6.254 19 Wars, fires, plagues...open a fair field to new men.
    CbW 6.254 26 The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes...the fevers and distempers of men, self-limiting.
    CbW 6.256 8 In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not...
    CbW 6.257 1 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the...network of the Mississippi Valley roads; which have evoked not only all the wealth of the soil, but the energy of millions of men.
    CbW 6.257 19 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging, and--what men like least--seriously lowering them in social rank.
    CbW 6.258 2 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls among other narrow men, or on objects which have a brief importance...he prefers it to the universe...
    CbW 6.258 8 Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
    CbW 6.258 15 ...the Furies are the bonds of men;...
    CbW 6.258 21 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/...
    CbW 6.258 24 ...great educators and lawgivers...esteem men of irregular and passional force the best timber.
    CbW 6.259 6 ...There are none but men of strong passions capable of going to greatness;...
    CbW 6.259 26 ...all great men come out of the middle classes.
    CbW 6.260 8 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    CbW 6.261 2 He [who is to be wise for many] must know the huts where poor men lie...
    CbW 6.261 3 He [who is to be wise for many] must know...the chores which poor men do.
    CbW 6.262 26 Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
    CbW 6.263 23 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw?
    CbW 6.265 8 I know how easy it is to men of the world to look grave and sneer at your sanguine youth and its glittering dreams.
    CbW 6.271 2 Our habit of thought--take men as they rise--is not satisfying;...
    CbW 6.271 15 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...what magical powers over nature and men;..he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    CbW 6.271 19 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...his suggestions require new ways of living, new books, new men, new arts and sciences;...
    CbW 6.271 27 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea, and dip our hands in its miraculous waves. 'T is wonderful the effect on the company. They are not the men they were.
    CbW 6.273 16 With the first class of men our friendship or good understanding goes quite behind all accidents of estrangement...
    CbW 6.277 17 The race is great, the ideal fair, but the men whiffling and unsure.
    CbW 6.278 25 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...these are the essentials,--these, and the wish...to add somewhat to the well-being of men.
    Bty 6.283 1 Men hold themselves cheap and vile;...
    Bty 6.285 20 ...the men of science...are not victims of their pursuits more than others.
    Bty 6.285 24 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details, and do not come out men of more force.
    Bty 6.286 13 Knowledge of men, knowledge of manners...never go out of fashion.
    Bty 6.291 16 How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,-- or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!
    Bty 6.295 20 ...see how surely a beautiful form strikes the fancy of men...
    Bty 6.296 6 All men are [the human form's] lovers.
    Bty 6.301 2 Those who have ruled human destinies like planets for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
    Bty 6.302 3 The lives of the Italian artists...prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    Bty 6.303 25 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
    Ill 6.313 11 I find men victims of illusion in all parts of life.
    Ill 6.313 12 Children, youths, adults and old men, all are led by one bawble or another.
    Ill 6.317 10 Men who make themselves felt in the world avail themselves of a certain fate in their constitution which they know how to use.
    Ill 6.317 16 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play...
    Ill 6.317 21 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty...
    Ill 6.318 6 The red men told Columbus they had an herb which took away fatigue;...
    Ill 6.318 24 The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities and men were swallowed up...
    Ill 6.318 26 The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities and men were swallowed up...
    Ill 6.322 8 The visions of good men are good;...
    Ill 6.322 12 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another;...
    Ill 6.323 13 One would think from the talk of men that riches and poverty were a great matter;...
    SS 7.3 21 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke weakly...
    SS 7.8 21 ...all our youth is a reconnoitring and recruiting of the holy fraternity [friendships] shall combine for the salvation of men.
    SS 7.9 9 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity to gods and men...
    SS 7.9 19 We have a fine right...to taunt men of the world with superficial and treacherous courtesies!
    SS 7.10 5 [The ends of thought] reach down to that depth...where the question is, Which is first, man or men?...
    SS 7.10 19 ...coop up most men and you undo them.
    SS 7.10 20 The king lived and ate in his hall with men, and understood men, said Selden.
    SS 7.11 4 A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
    SS 7.11 9 Society cannot do without cultivated men.
    SS 7.12 2 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
    SS 7.13 10 For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
    SS 7.13 16 So many men whom I know are degraded by their sympathies;...
    SS 7.13 20 Men cannot afford to live together on their merits...
    SS 7.15 3 What to do with these brisk young men who break through all fences...
    SS 7.15 22 ...most men are cowed in society...

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