Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 14, 2025
One who reads his mocking sayings, or what seemed to be a clever string of jeers directed against religion, might well think that Carlyle was throughout his life an atheist, or an agnostic. He confessed to Irving that he did not believe in the Christian religion, and it was vain to hope that he ever would so believe. Moreover, Carlyle had done something which was unusual at that time.
These sayings were duly reported to Lodovico by his own friends at the French court, and chief among them M. de Trano, a Provençal gentleman who was in constant correspondence with Milan, as well as by the Duke of Ferrara's envoy. Ercole himself is described by French agents as "très attaché
He tells us, for instance, that he who has created a beautiful thing must have beauty in his soul, a charming idea, as to which we do not stop to inquire whether it be true or not. He gives us a most excellent caution against storing up good sayings, and using them from the storehouse of our memory: "Let him avoid these studied things, not made of the moment, but brought from the closet."
One is continually coming upon passages in Dostoievsky the strange and ambiguous nature of which leads one's thought far enough from Evangelical simplicities; passages that are, indeed, at once so beautiful and so sinister that they make one think of certain demonic sayings of Goethe or Spinoza; and yet even these passages do no more than throw new and formidable light upon the "old situations," the old "cross-roads."
Then, returning to where Domini was kneeling, he put his arms round her and drew her to her feet. She did not resist him. Still holding her in his arms he blew out the lamp. The Arabs have a saying, "In the desert one forgets everything, one remembers nothing any more." To Domini it sometimes seemed the truest of all the true and beautiful sayings of the East.
But I am minded to pray to the Mother for him, to the awful goddess unto whom, and unto Pan, before my door nightly the maidens move in dance and song. Yet, O Hieron, if thou art skilled to apprehend the true meaning of sayings, thou hast learnt to know this from the men of old; The immortals deal to men two ill things for one good.
The young musician soon became a favorite at Court, not only on account of his musical genius but also because of the general culture of his mind. He could talk on almost any subject. "Whoever wishes to play well must not only practise a great deal but read many books," was one of his favorite sayings.
'Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. MATT. v. 4. An ordinary superficial view of these so-called Beatitudes is that they are simply a collection of unrelated sayings. But they are a great deal more than that. There is a vital connection and progress in them.
I observed to him that there were very few of his friends so accurate as that I could venture to put down in writing what they told me as his sayings. JOHNSON. 'Why should you write down MY sayings? BOSWELL. 'I write them when they are good. JOHNSON. 'Nay, you may as well write down the sayings of any one else that are good. But WHERE, I might with great propriety have added, can I find such?
He had not the faculty to compare the sayings of men with the sayings of God; or the sayings of one man with the sayings of another. He was a mere dealer in words and phrases, and he aspired to nothing higher than to live by the ignoble occupation.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking