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Page xxiv
... ideal standing- point , this invisible threshold , as it were , whence one hears the impetuous passage of time , rushing and foaming as it flows out into the changeless ocean of eternity . After all the bewildering dis tractions of life ...
... ideal standing- point , this invisible threshold , as it were , whence one hears the impetuous passage of time , rushing and foaming as it flows out into the changeless ocean of eternity . After all the bewildering dis tractions of life ...
Page xxv
... ideal truths for which neither language nor institutions provide any adequate expression ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and temporary as the various existing forms of human activity ? Above all ...
... ideal truths for which neither language nor institutions provide any adequate expression ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and temporary as the various existing forms of human activity ? Above all ...
Page xxvi
... ideal . ' And so one thing after another is put away . Family life attracted him perpetually . ' I cannot escape , ' he writes , from the ideal of it . A companion of my life , of my work , of my thoughts , of my hopes ; within a common ...
... ideal . ' And so one thing after another is put away . Family life attracted him perpetually . ' I cannot escape , ' he writes , from the ideal of it . A companion of my life , of my work , of my thoughts , of my hopes ; within a common ...
Page xliii
... ideal which gives a fundamental unity to his inner life , he is the type of a generation universally touched with doubt , and yet as sensitive to the need of faith as any that have gone before it ; more widely conscious than its ...
... ideal which gives a fundamental unity to his inner life , he is the type of a generation universally touched with doubt , and yet as sensitive to the need of faith as any that have gone before it ; more widely conscious than its ...
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... ideal . Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself , it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence . Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement . • To repel one's cross is to make it heavier . In the conduct of life ...
... ideal . Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself , it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence . Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement . • To repel one's cross is to make it heavier . In the conduct of life ...
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