The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile ProfessionTicknor and Fields, 1854 - 39 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 20 - people go through the world very well and carry on the business of life to good advantage without learning." Johnson: "Why, Sir, that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use; for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning, as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors." He then called to the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?" "Sir," said the boy, "I would give what I have.
Σελίδα 23 - In this mood, his best impulses become a snare to him, and he is led astray because 22 he is social, affectionate, sympathetic, and warmhearted. If there be a young man thus circumstanced within the sound of my voice, let me say to him that books are the friends of the friendless, and that a library is the home of the homeless. A taste for reading will always carry you into the best possible...
Σελίδα 23 - ... affectionate, sympathetic, and warm-hearted. If there be a young man thus circumstanced within the sound of my voice, let me say to him, that books are the friends of the friendless, and that a library is the home of the homeless. A taste for reading will always carry you into the best possible company, and enable you to converse with men who will instruct you by their wisdom, and charm you by their wit; who will soothe you when fretted, refresh you when weary, counsel you when perplexed, and...
Σελίδα 22 - But it is no overstatement to say that, other things being equal, the man who has the greatest amount of intellectual resources is in the least danger from inferior temptations — if for no other reason, because he has fewer idle moments. The ruin of most men dates from some vacant hour. Occupation is the armor of the soul, and the train of Idleness is borne up by all the vices. I remember a satirical poem in which the devil is represented as fishing for men and adapting his baits to the tastes...
Σελίδα 30 - I confess that increasing years bring with them an increasing respect for men who do not succeed in life, as those words are commonly used.
Σελίδα 20 - ... before it was gathered. Here we find the growth of the choicest seasons of the mind, when mortal cares were forgotten, and mortal weaknesses were subdued ; and the soul, stripped of its vanities and its passions, lay bare to the finest effluences of truth and beauty. We may be sure that Shakspeare never out-talked his Hamlet, nor Bacon his Essays.
Σελίδα 10 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes, and in proportion as they are metaphysically true they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition but not impossible to be discerned.
Σελίδα 19 - ... submission. When we read of realms smitten with the scourge of famine or pestilence, or strewn with the bloody ashes of war, of grass growing in the streets of great cities, of ships rotting at the wharves, of fathers burying their sons, of strong men begging their bread, of fields...
Σελίδα 22 - But it is no over-statement to say, that, other things being equal, the man who has the greatest amount of intellectual resources is in the least danger from inferior temptations, — if for no other reason, because he has fewer idle moments. The ruin of most men dates from some vacant hour. Occupation is the armour of the soul ; and the train of Idleness is borne up by all the vices.
Σελίδα 30 - Heaven has been said to be a place for those who have not succeeded on earth; and it is surely true that celestial graces do not best thrive and bloom in the hot blaze of worldly prosperity. Ill success sometimes arises from a superabundance of qualities in themselves good — from a conscience too sensitive, a taste too fastidious, a self-forgetfulness too romantic, a modesty too retiring. I do not go so far as to say with a living poet that " The world knows nothing of Its greatest men ; " but...