United States or Sint Maarten ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
With all this, we are not obliged to shut our eyes to the true significance of what she tells us, or to assume that in the account she gives us of herself there is necessarily less self-deception than self-judgment generally exhibits.
In her flights of idle fancy she had often suspected something not unlike the truth, basing her conjecture on the mystery which had always hung round that Paris visit, partly on the world's general experience of what happened to handsome young men. For, in her heart of hearts, had there not lurked all the time a wonder which was partly self-judgment?
"Yes," said Tydomin, "I will follow you to the end. It is all the more essential, because I keep on displeasing you with my remarks, and that means I have not yet learned my lesson properly." "Do not be humble, for humility is only self-judgment, and while we are thinking of self, we must be neglecting some action we could be planning or shaping in our mind."
Misfortune seems to have dogged my steps; but in this pause of my life in this state of calmness I can see that misfortune is my good; for, not until my feet were turning into ways that lead to death, did I stumble and fall." "Are you not too hard in self-judgment?" I said. "No," he answered. "The case stands just here. You know, I presume, the immediate cause of my recent failure in business."
She realised that here was a nature different from her own, and which should be dealt with in a way unsuitable to herself; and the conviction seemed to make the action which it necessitated more easy as well as more natural to her. Perhaps for the first time in her life Stephen understood that it may be necessary to apply to individuals a standard of criticism unsuitable to self-judgment.
In the clear, cold analytical light which the "Juventui Mundi" pours upon the nebulous realm of Hellenic lore and Heroic legend, we learn that Homer knew "no destiny fighting with the gods, or unless in the shape of death, defying them," and that the "Nemesis often inaccurately rendered as revenge, was after all but self-judgment, or sense of moral law."
'Oh, I can understand! he said, reverently 'I can understand. I have come across it once or twice, that fierce self-judgment of the good. It is the most stirring and humbling thing in life. Then his voice dropped. 'And after the last conflict the last "quailing breath," the last onslaughts of doubt or fear think of the Vision waiting the Eternal Comfort "Oh, my only Light!
It may be doubted whether he was not, like an unskillful swimmer, ignorant of his danger; but it is certain that, had he been able to search out his own heart with his former acuteness of self-judgment, he would have found the first germs of inclinations and feelings to which he had been up till now a stranger.
How, indeed, should he excuse himself? Louie's character was a fixed quantity to be reckoned on by all who had dealings with her. Dora perfectly understood his tone. Yet in her heart of hearts she forgave him for she knew not what! became his champion. There was a dry sharpness of self-judgment, a settled conviction of coming ill in all he said which wrung her heart.
Besides the selfish affections, which are directed as much to the injury as to the support of others, there lies in the organization of man a force which steadily tends toward the good, in the form of underived feelings of sympathy and benevolence, from which moral self-judgment is developed by the aid of reflection.
Word Of The Day