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Updated: September 4, 2025
"Truly it demands something god-like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity and has ventured to trust himself for a task-master. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!"
"I think I do," I said "You mean that I must stand alone?" "Alone, yet not alone!" he answered, and his fine face was transfigured into light with its intense feeling and power "Alone with Love! which is to say alone with God, and therefore surrounded by all god-like, lasting and revivifying things.
'It is Achilles on the rampart, shouting at the Trojans! O Edgar how brave he looks how his hair flies! Some day you will get him in his god-like beauty! 'Do you think he has not got any of it, Cherry? said Edgar, gazing wistfully. 'I did see it all, but it didn't come out and now 'I see what you mean, said Cherry, screwing up her eyes; 'it is in him to be glorious a kind of lightning look.
She loves more the gentler encounters of social intercourse, where wit, and sense, and the affections, have their full play, and the god-like that is within us asserts its supremacy. But my purpose now is to tell you how and why it is I am here, and describe to you as well as I can this new Elysium: and how it is the happy spirits, whom the gods have permitted to dwell here, pass their hours.
Little pupil of my eyes, you don't hear me!" "Gionetta, is he not god-like?" "Sancta Maria! he is handsome, bellissimo; and when you are his wife, for they say these English are never satisfied unless they marry " "Wife! English! Whom are you talking of?" "Why, the young English signor, to be sure." "Chut! I thought you spoke of Zicci." "Oh!
The greatest boon of God is life, The dearest trust to mortal given And God-like 'tis to keep and save This precious heritage of heaven, This holy aim, this task divine Thy proud achievements claim as thine.
Now, that this spirit is diametrically opposed to the benevolent precepts of Christianity, the fact of our blessed Lord performing his painful mission on earth in no higher capacity than that of a working mechanic, ought sufficiently to show. What divine benevolence what god-like humility was displayed in this heroic act!
But all the rest of her belonged to the beautiful race from the South, fair, supple and with a delicate face which was formed on straight and simple lines like those of a Hindoo figure. Her eyes, which were very far apart, still further heightened the somewhat god-like looks of this desert marauder. "I knew nothing exactly about her real life.
In addition, she had manifested the most beautiful and God-like trait that can ennoble human character the desire to save and sweeten others' lives. To have been lectured and talked to on the subject of religion in any conventional way by one outside of his sympathies would have been as repulsive as useless, but Annie had the tact to make her effort appear like angelic ministry.
If there had been a true love of his neighbor in the mind of the gifted one when he wrote the book from which the mother read, and if his purpose had been to inspire with human emotions and none but these are God-like the souls of men, his work would have filled the heart of that mother with a deeper love of her child, instead of freezing in her bosom the surface of love's celestial fountain.
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