Thing to Things

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

thing, n. (388)

    Nat 1.41 13 When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service.
    Nat 1.41 19 ...a thing is good only so far as it serves;...
    Nat 1.45 6 The wise man, in doing one thing, does all;...
    Nat 1.45 7 ...in the one thing [the wise man] does rightly, he sees the likeness of all which is done rightly.
    Nat 1.68 11 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he...finds something of himself in every great and small thing...
    AmS 1.83 19 Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing...
    AmS 1.85 16 To the young mind every thing is individual...
    AmS 1.90 3 The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
    AmS 1.96 24 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings...
    AmS 1.104 5 ...fear is a thing which a scholar by his very function puts behind him.
    AmS 1.105 11 ...in proportion as a man has any thing in him divine, the firmament flows before him...
    AmS 1.105 18 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
    AmS 1.105 21 The great man makes the great thing.
    AmS 1.109 17 ...we cannot enjoy any thing for hankering to know whereof the pleasure consists;...
    AmS 1.109 22 Sight is the last thing to be pitied.
    AmS 1.112 16 Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us...the genius of the ancients.
    AmS 1.113 13 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual...tends to true union as well as greatness.
    DSA 1.148 26 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
    DSA 1.151 22 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science...
    LE 1.170 13 Greek history is one thing to me; another to you.
    LE 1.173 10 ...thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day, and the thing whereon it shines...
    LE 1.181 9 Let [the scholar] know that...in the sedulous inquiry...to know how the thing stands;...the secret of the world is to be learned...
    MN 1.213 27 You will not understand [the Intelligible] as when understanding some particular thing...
    MN 1.219 4 Genius...advertises us...that it knows so deeply and speaks so musically, because it is itself a mutation of the thing it describes.
    MN 1.223 18 ...this one thing I know, that these qualities did not now begin to exist...
    MR 1.230 11 That fancy [the scholar] had, and hesitated to utter because you would laugh,-the broker, the attorney, the market-man are saying the same thing.
    LT 1.280 5 ...if I treat all men as gods, how to me can there be any such thing as a slave?
    LT 1.282 21 We find it the worst thing about time that we know not what to do with it.
    Con 1.306 14 ...[the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing and that thing have owners...
    Tran 1.329 1 The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new views here in New England...is, that they are not new...
    Tran 1.332 10 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...that figures do not lie;...
    Tran 1.338 2 ...there is no such thing as a Transcendental party;...
    Tran 1.350 5 I do not wish to do one thing but once.
    Tran 1.350 13 Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
    YA 1.374 26 ...one thing is certain, that we who build will receive the very smallest share of benefit.
    YA 1.381 16 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into...
    YA 1.390 16 We cannot give our life to the cause...of the pauper, as another is doing; but to one thing we are bound, not to blaspheme the sentiment and the work of that man...
    YA 1.391 22 One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience...
    YA 1.392 21 ...it is one thing to visit the Pyramids, and another to wish to live there.
    YA 1.393 5 One thing for instance, the beauties of aristocracy, we commend to the study of the travelling American.
    Hist 2.8 15 Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to [each man].
    Hist 2.23 16 Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind...
    Hist 2.23 18 ...every thing is in turn intelligible to [the individual], as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs.
    Hist 2.33 15 See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing.
    SR 2.51 2 A man is to carry himself...as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.
    SR 2.54 26 Do I not know that with all this ostentation of examining the grounds of the institution [the preacher] will do no such thing?
    SR 2.57 24 ...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
    SR 2.58 12 A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;-read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
    SR 2.65 17 [Thoughtless people] fancy that I choose to see this or that thing.
    SR 2.65 27 It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things;...
    SR 2.66 26 ...history is an impertinence and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.
    SR 2.74 5 ...all persons have their moments...when they look out into the region of absolute truth; then will they justify me and do the same thing.
    SR 2.79 25 The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby.
    SR 2.82 21 [The work of art] was an application of [the artist's] own thought to the thing to be done...
    SR 2.82 26 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    SR 2.84 16 For every thing that is given something is taken.
    Comp 2.97 5 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole;...
    Comp 2.98 13 For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else;...
    Comp 2.98 15 ...for every thing you gain, you lose something.
    Comp 2.101 3 Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature.
    Comp 2.101 4 Every thing is made of one hidden stuff;...
    Comp 2.103 1 Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner; first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature.
    Comp 2.103 4 The causal retribution is in the thing and is seen by the soul.
    Comp 2.103 7 The retribution in the circumstance...is inseparable from the thing...
    Comp 2.107 8 There is a crack in every thing God has made.
    Comp 2.111 23 One thing [Fear] teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.
    Comp 2.112 18 Has a man gained any thing who has received a hundred favors and rendered none?
    Comp 2.113 4 [The borrower] may soon come to see...that the highest price he can pay for a thing is to ask for it.
    Comp 2.113 19 He is base,--and that is the one base thing in the universe,-- to receive favors and render none.
    Comp 2.114 27 The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power;...
    Comp 2.115 2 ...they who do not the thing have not the power.
    Comp 2.115 8 ...the doctrine that every thing has its price...is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
    Comp 2.115 9 ...the doctrine that every thing has its price,--and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained...is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
    Comp 2.116 19 The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns every thing to its own nature...
    Comp 2.119 2 ...it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
    Comp 2.120 13 Every thing has two sides, a good and an evil.
    SL 2.132 21 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to give account of his faith...
    SL 2.138 10 Every man sees that he is that middle point whereof every thing may be affirmed and denied with equal reason.
    SL 2.142 20 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do...
    SL 2.142 25 We...do not perceive that any thing man can do may be divinely done.
    SL 2.152 26 ...the thing uttered in words is not therefore affirmed.
    SL 2.155 10 ...[what the great man did] was the most natural thing in the world...
    SL 2.155 12 ...now, every thing [the great man] did...looks large...
    SL 2.156 3 ...the mere air of doing a thing...expresses character.
    SL 2.157 22 If a man know that he can do any thing...he has a pledge of the acknowledgement of that fact by all persons.
    SL 2.159 15 If you would not be known to do any thing, never do it.
    SL 2.163 20 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge...
    Lov1 2.171 18 Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth.
    Fdsp 2.195 26 Every thing that is [our friend's]...fancy enhances.
    Fdsp 2.201 13 When [friendships] are real, they are...the solidest thing we know.
    Fdsp 2.212 1 Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such?
    Prd1 2.222 26 A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified;...
    Prd1 2.223 22 ...culture...aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades every thing else...into means.
    Prd1 2.235 15 ...every thing in nature, even motes and feathers, go by law and not by luck...
    Prd1 2.236 21 ...every fact hath its roots in the soul, and if the soul were changed would cease to be, or would become some other thing...
    Hsm1 2.251 2 ...for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed...
    Hsm1 2.256 15 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously;...
    OS 2.269 13 ...the act of seeing and the thing seen...are one.
    OS 2.278 10 We owe many valuable observations to people...who say the thing without effort which we want...
    OS 2.280 11 If we...see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
    OS 2.280 12 If we...see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
    OS 2.282 25 The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
    Cir 2.303 20 Every thing is medial.
    Cir 2.306 23 What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world;...
    Cir 2.318 12 Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false.
    Cir 2.320 24 Now for the first time seem I to know any thing rightly.
    Cir 2.321 21 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves...
    Int 2.346 26 Well assured that their speech is intelligible and the most natural thing in the world, [the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis...
    Art1 2.354 12 Until one thing comes out from the connection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.
    Art1 2.355 12 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that...
    Art1 2.355 20 I should think fire the best thing in the world, if I were not acquainted with air, and water, and earth.
    Art1 2.357 4 If [the artist] can draw every thing, why draw any thing?...
    Art1 2.367 2 ...the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.
    Pt1 3.10 2 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,--a thought so passionate and alive that...it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
    Pt1 3.15 3 ...every thing in nature answers to a moral power...
    Pt1 3.22 11 ...the poet names the thing because he sees it...
    Pt1 3.25 8 ...as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.
    Pt1 3.25 9 ...the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.
    Pt1 3.41 5 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael... resemble a mirror carried through the street, ready to render an image of every created thing.
    Exp 3.48 14 The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
    Exp 3.56 11 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence. Their opinion...is nowise to be trusted as the lasting relation between that intellect and that thing.
    Exp 3.67 12 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...
    Exp 3.69 6 ...every thing [is] impossible until we see a success.
    Exp 3.76 9 ...every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast.
    Chr1 3.90 23 ...Hercules...conquered whether he stood, or walked, or sat, or whatever thing he did.
    Mrs1 3.133 24 ...the first thing man requires of man is reality...
    Mrs1 3.149 7 A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature...
    Mrs1 3.153 11 The worth of the thing signified must vindicate our taste for the emblem.
    Nat2 3.178 17 The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the beauty of nature from the thing to be done, must consider that our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
    Nat2 3.186 4 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    Pol1 3.214 18 This undertaking for another is the blunder which stands in colossal ugliness in the governments of the world. It is the same thing in numbers, as in a pair, only not quite so intelligible.
    NR 3.236 16 You are one thing, but Nature is one thing and the other thing, in the same moment.
    NR 3.236 17 You are one thing, but Nature is one thing and the other thing, in the same moment.
    NR 3.239 11 ...it is so much easier to do what one has done before than to do a new thing, that there is a perpetual tendency to a set mode.
    NR 3.244 3 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the nourishment to be drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his observation...
    NR 3.244 20 What is best in each kind is an index of what should be the average of that thing.
    NR 3.245 16 All the universe over, there is but one thing, this old Two-Face... of which any proposition may be affirmed or denied.
    NER 3.257 16 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with...a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
    NER 3.261 13 The criticism and attack on institutions...has made one thing plain...
    NER 3.282 21 I am not pained that I cannot frame a reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence? There lies the unspoken thing, present, omnipresent.
    NER 3.283 25 The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
    UGM 4.6 20 ...every one can do his best thing easiest.
    UGM 4.9 10 A man is a centre for nature, running out threads of relation through every thing...
    UGM 4.9 16 Each plant has its parasite, and each created thing its lover and poet.
    UGM 4.10 21 The table of logarithms is one thing, and its vital play in botany, music, optics and architecture another.
    UGM 4.11 5 We speak now only of...the way in which [the sciences] seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his life long.
    UGM 4.11 7 Each material thing has its celestial side;...
    UGM 4.11 21 The reason why [man] knows about [things] is that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of that thing.
    UGM 4.28 18 ...nature wishes every thing to remain itself;...
    PPh 4.41 27 ...[the great man] can dispose of every thing.
    PPh 4.45 11 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by any thing short-lived or local...
    PPh 4.54 22 ...whether a swarm of bees settled on his lips, or not;--a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    PPh 4.57 4 All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and impersonates [Plato's] philosophy.
    PPh 4.60 8 ...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it [said Plato];...
    PPh 4.61 24 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored...that of which every thing can be affirmed and denied...
    PPh 4.69 8 ...every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good.
    PPh 4.71 25 [Socrates]...thought every thing in Athens a little better than anything in any other place.
    PPh 4.75 1 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice. These things I hear like pipes and drums, whose sound makes me deaf to every thing you say.
    PPh 4.76 22 ...[Plato] has said one thing in one place, and the reverse of it in another place.
    PPh 4.77 2 Here is the world...perfect...not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but [Plato's] theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
    PNR 4.84 21 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.
    SwM 4.93 23 Wherever the sentiment of right comes in, it takes precedence of every thing else.
    SwM 4.96 11 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge: no wonder that she is able to recollect, in regard to any one thing, what formerly she knew.
    SwM 4.96 16 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    SwM 4.109 1 Every thing, at the end of one use, is taken up into the next...
    SwM 4.109 6 ...every thing at the end of one use is lifted into a superior...
    SwM 4.116 14 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept: although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise by bare literal transposition;...
    SwM 4.121 18 Every thing must be taken genially...
    SwM 4.121 20 ...we must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly.
    SwM 4.125 12 [To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist states: every thing gravitates...
    SwM 4.125 15 [To Swedenborg] Every thing is as I am.
    SwM 4.139 2 Every thing is superficial and perishes but love and truth only.
    SwM 4.140 10 The illuminated Quakers explained their Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action, but it appears as an obstruction to any thing unfit.
    MoS 4.157 16 ...there is no practical question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had?
    MoS 4.161 9 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    MoS 4.168 2 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head; treating every thing without ceremony, yet with masculine sense.
    MoS 4.177 18 I can reason down or deny every thing, except this perpetual Belly...
    MoS 4.185 10 Things seem to say one thing, and say the reverse.
    ShP 4.189 14 A poet is no rattle-brain, saying what comes uppermost, because he says every thing, saying at last something good;...
    ShP 4.191 6 Choose any other thing...and [the great man] would have all to do for himself...
    ShP 4.199 14 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay?...
    ShP 4.212 23 [A man of talents] crams this part and starves that other part, consulting not the fitness of the thing, but his fitness and strength.
    ShP 4.214 2 ...[Shakespeare] is the chief example to prove that...more or fewer pictures, is a thing indifferent.
    NMW 4.232 19 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because...my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.
    NMW 4.233 15 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...sacrificing every thing...to his aim;...
    NMW 4.234 5 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel...not bloodthirsty, not cruel,--but woe to what thing or person stood in his way!
    NMW 4.235 17 [Napoleon] risked every thing and spared nothing...
    NMW 4.235 20 We like to see every thing do its office after its kind...
    NMW 4.237 26 Every thing depended on the nicety of [Napoleon's] combinations...
    NMW 4.242 25 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...
    NMW 4.251 5 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any thing about.
    NMW 4.252 27 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave, who in their despair took hold of any thing...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    NMW 4.255 20 ...[Napoleon]...rubbed his hands with joy when he had intercepted some morsel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him, boasting that he knew every thing;...
    GoW 4.274 17 [Goethe] writes in the plainest and lowest tone...putting ever a thing for a word.
    GoW 4.276 14 Goethe would have no word that does not cover a thing.
    GoW 4.277 4 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought,-- and found that the portrait gained reality and terror by every thing he added and by every thing he took away.
    ET1 5.9 24 The thing done avails [to Landor], and not what is said about it.
    ET1 5.15 15 [Carlyle] was...full of lively anecdote and with a streaming humor which floated every thing he looked upon.
    ET1 5.16 18 The best thing [Carlyle] knew of that country [America] was that in it a man can have meat for his labor.
    ET1 5.21 2 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action the physical strength of the people, as had just now been done in England in the Reform Bill,--a thing prophesied by Delolme.
    ET2 5.28 6 It is impossible not to personify a ship; every body does, in every thing they say...
    ET2 5.28 11 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's] sailing qualities.
    ET4 5.47 18 ...no genius can long or often utter any thing which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    ET4 5.54 20 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution. Others who might be Americans, for any thing that appeared in their complexion or form;...
    ET5 5.77 24 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...thinks the same thing...
    ET5 5.95 4 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical.
    ET5 5.96 15 The English trade does not exist for the exportation of native products, but on its manufactures, or the making well every thing which is ill-made elsewhere.
    ET6 5.102 9 ...the one thing the English value is pluck.
    ET6 5.102 15 ...the Times newspaper they say is the pluckiest thing in England...
    ET6 5.103 22 ...one thing is plain, [England] is no country for fainthearted people;...
    ET6 5.112 19 [The English] avoid every thing marked.
    ET6 5.113 1 [The English] avoid pretension and go right to the heart of the thing.
    ET6 5.113 6 [The English] value themselves on the absence of every thing theatrical in the public business...
    ET6 5.114 27 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk].
    ET6 5.115 3 ...[at an English dress-dinner] one meets now and then with polished men who know every thing, have tried every thing, and can do every thing...
    ET6 5.115 4 ...[at an English dress-dinner] one meets now and then with polished men who know every thing, have tried every thing, and can do every thing...
    ET7 5.122 3 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep, never proposing any thing...
    ET7 5.126 1 The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous: tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret. None of these traits belong to the Englishman. His choler and conceit force every thing out.
    ET8 5.133 15 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
    ET9 5.145 12 A much older traveller...says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
    ET9 5.145 20 A much older traveller...says... ... ...whenever [the English] partake of any delicacy with a foreigner, they ask him whether such a thing is made in his country.
    ET10 5.155 2 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
    ET10 5.155 17 From the Exchequer and the East India House to the huckster's shop, every thing [in England] prospers because it is solvent.
    ET13 5.221 5 So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
    ET13 5.230 20 But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they...are to the Established Church as cabs are to a coach, cheaper and more convenient, but really the same thing.
    ET14 5.247 1 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe...
    F 6.1 12 ...the prevision is allied/ Unto the thing so signified;/...
    F 6.6 3 The Destinee.../ So strong it is, that though the world had sworne/ The contrary of a thing by yea or nay,/ Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...
    F 6.9 12 A dome of brow denotes one thing...
    F 6.30 4 The one serious and formidable thing in nature is a will.
    F 6.40 15 All the toys that infatuate men...are the selfsame thing...
    Pow 6.54 4 All successful men have agreed in one thing,--they were causationists.
    Pow 6.78 25 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature... gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
    Wth 6.87 14 The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing from where it abounds to where it is costly.
    Wth 6.92 24 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth...made the insignificance of the thing forgotten...
    Wth 6.104 19 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad, or, what is just the same thing, introduce a demoralizing institution, would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Wth 6.118 16 A farm is a good thing when it begins and ends with itself...
    Wth 6.121 12 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing...
    Ctr 6.139 27 A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
    Ctr 6.162 27 If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not come at the first or the second call...
    Bhr 6.180 2 When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first.
    Bhr 6.180 9 There is a look by which a man shows he is going to say a good thing...
    Bhr 6.188 6 In persons of character we do not remark manners, because of their instantaneousness. We are surprised by the thing done, out of all power to watch the way of it.
    Wsp 6.210 13 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    Wsp 6.211 6 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty. Ay, says New York, he made a handsome thing of it...
    Wsp 6.237 1 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands. Should she keep her, or should she dismiss her? But Benedict said, why ask? One thing will clear itself as the thing to be done...
    Wsp 6.237 2 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands. Should she keep her, or should she dismiss her? But Benedict said, why ask? One thing will clear itself as the thing to be done...
    Wsp 6.239 7 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live...
    CbW 6.248 23 Franklin said, Mankind...begin upon a thing, but, meeting with a difficulty, they fly from it discouraged;...
    CbW 6.257 27 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who, because he does not see many things, sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration...
    Bty 6.299 10 The man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches...
    Bty 6.303 17 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain cosmical quality...
    Bty 6.304 7 The feat of the imagination is in showing the convertibility of every thing into every other thing.
    Bty 6.304 8 The feat of the imagination is in showing the convertibility of every thing into every other thing.
    Bty 6.305 2 ...whatsoever thing does not express to me the sea and sky...is somewhat forbidden and wrong.
    Ill 6.310 9 ...the best thing which the [Mammoth] cave had to offer was an illusion.
    Ill 6.325 20 The mad crowd drives hither and thither, now furiously commanding this thing to be done, now that.
    SS 7.4 11 When [my new friend] bought a house, the first thing he did was to plant trees.
    SS 7.5 22 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions: It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.
    Civ 7.30 7 A puny creature, walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote,-- Unless above himself he can/ Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!/...
    Art2 7.39 17 [Art] was defined by Aristotle, The reason of the thing, without the matter.
    Elo1 7.74 18 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly; without new information, or precision of thought, but the same thing...
    Elo1 7.77 24 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
    Elo1 7.88 10 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being in all great masters one and the same thing...
    Elo1 7.89 13 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not, yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes.
    DL 7.109 18 I am not one thing and my expenditure another.
    DL 7.112 8 ...if you look at the multitude of particulars, one would say: Good housekeeping is impossible; order is too precious a thing to dwell with men and women.
    DL 7.124 27 We...are still villagers, who think that every thing in their petty town is a little superior to the same thing anywhere else.
    DL 7.125 1 We...are still villagers, who think that every thing in their petty town is a little superior to the same thing anywhere else.
    Boks 7.195 4 [Nature] does the same thing by books as by her gases and plants.
    Boks 7.196 20 If you should transfer the amount of your reading day by day from the newspaper to the standard authors----But who dare speak of such a thing?
    Clbs 7.227 3 ...one thing is certain,--at some rate, intercourse we must have.
    Clbs 7.228 5 Every time we say a thing in conversation, we get a mechanical advantage in detaching it well and deliverly.
    Clbs 7.230 14 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then they confirm and adorn each other; a story is matched by another story. And that may be the reason why, when a gentleman has told a good thing, he immediately tells it again.
    Clbs 7.238 19 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton; when Schiller came to Goethe;...
    Clbs 7.248 25 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all...agreed in one thing,--that they had not eaten better for three years.
    Suc 7.281 1 One thing is forever good;/ That one thing is Success,--/ Dear to the Eumenides,/ And to all the heavenly brood./
    Suc 7.281 2 One thing is forever good;/ That one thing is Success,--/ Dear to the Eumenides,/ And to all the heavenly brood./
    PI 8.13 20 ...if the elm-tree thinks the same thing, if running water, if burning coal...say what I say, it must be true.
    PI 8.17 5 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing...
    PI 8.17 22 A deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
    PI 8.22 11 Charles James Fox thought Poetry the great refreshment of the human mind,--the only thing, after all;...
    PI 8.23 16 We are advertised...that every thing is convertible into every other.
    PI 8.23 19 Whatever one act we do, whatever one thing we learn, we are doing and learning all things...
    PI 8.56 13 Gray avows that he thinks even a bad verse as good a thing or better than the best observation that was ever made on it.
    PI 8.72 24 Turnpike is one thing and blue sky another.
    SA 8.103 12 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company: what...with an eye always to the working of the thing...
    SA 8.105 13 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists,--Talkers who mistake the description for the thing...
    SA 8.107 5 Any other affection between men than this geometric one of relation to the same thing, is a mere mush of materialism.
    Elo2 8.127 1 If [some men] are to put a thing in proper shape...their mind is a blank.
    Elo2 8.129 27 ...the essential thing [in eloquence] is heat...
    Res 8.147 6 ...it is the principal thing you are to beg at the hands of Almighty God, to preserve your understanding entire;...
    Res 8.149 13 We have not a toy or trinket for idle amusement but somewhere it is the one thing needful...
    Res 8.151 7 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country wants all things on a low tone...
    Comc 8.156 1 And if I laugh at any mortal thing/ 't is that I may not weep./ Byron.
    Comc 8.164 19 ...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...
    Comc 8.164 27 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did;...
    Comc 8.171 5 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one whose bonnet and dress are one thing, and the lady herself quite another...
    QO 8.192 6 Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing, caught it up...
    QO 8.195 10 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing.
    QO 8.197 12 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    QO 8.199 20 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first negro, who...gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt with?
    Insp 8.269 4 ...the one thing we wish to know is, where power is to be bought.
    Grts 8.308 26 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Imtl 8.340 22 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death; which were only those of the understanding, and not of the affections; so immortal and incorruptible a thing did knowledge seem to them to be.
    Imtl 8.351 2 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant.
    Dem1 10.18 9 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and religions have attempted...to settle the thing once for all...
    Dem1 10.24 27 Men...who had thought it the most natural thing in the world that they should exist in this orderly and replenished world, have been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the somnambulist.
    Dem1 10.25 10 [Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art. The uses of the thing, the commodity, the power, at once come to mind...
    Aris 10.30 6 Than cometh our very gentillesse of grace,/ It was no thing bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The Knighte's Tale.
    Aris 10.36 13 Every mark and scutcheon of [Nature's] indicates constitutional qualities. In science, in trade...it is the same thing.
    Aris 10.50 20 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest. Well then choose him by acclamation. And they go home and tell their wives with great satisfaction what a good thing they have done.
    PerF 10.86 13 One thing is plain; a certain personal virtue is essential to freedom;...
    Chr2 10.95 2 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/...
    Chr2 10.106 24 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England.
    Edc1 10.128 13 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round.
    Edc1 10.135 15 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself...
    Edc1 10.156 21 See what [your pupils] need, and that the right thing is done.
    Edc1 10.157 24 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk; but if one of the young people says a wise thing, greet it...
    MoL 10.246 21 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues, and...said, With your character now I could raise all this money at once, and make an excellent thing of it.
    MoL 10.250 9 [Nature says to the American] One thing you have rightly done. You have offered a patch of land in the wilderness to every son of Adam who will till it.
    Schr 10.274 16 One thing is for [the thoughtful man] settled, that he is to come at his ends.
    Schr 10.275 6 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father...I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    Schr 10.285 6 [Men of talent]...noisily persuade society that this thing which they do is the needful cause of all men.
    LLNE 10.352 10 [Fourier] treats man as a plastic thing...
    LLNE 10.357 8 [Thoreau said] I love best to have each thing in its season only...
    EzRy 10.385 25 [Ezra Ripley] looked at every person and thing from the parochial point of view.
    EzRy 10.388 9 Right manly [Ezra Ripley] was, and the manly thing he could always say.
    EzRy 10.389 27 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact. To undeceive him, I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing...
    MMEm 10.407 1 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who lives in society alone...
    MMEm 10.428 11 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency.
    Thor 10.479 22 To [Thoreau] there was no such thing as size.
    Carl 10.491 23 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters...
    Carl 10.496 22 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen...
    Carl 10.497 27 This aplomb [of Carlyle] cannot be mimicked; it is the speaking to the heart of the thing.
    GSt 10.499 3 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.
    LS 11.12 5 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians. Why? For two reasons...(2) because it was typical, and all understood that humility is the thing signified.
    LS 11.19 11 To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
    War 11.171 20 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through all the throats of artillery...
    FSLC 11.205 19 The union of this people is a real thing...
    FSLC 11.206 13 ...one thing appears certain to me, as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
    FSLC 11.210 22 ......still the question recurs, What must we do [about slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must keep Massachusetts true.
    FSLN 11.217 7 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is, not to know their own task...
    FSLN 11.232 24 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear, the worthlessness of good tools to bad workmen;...
    AsSu 11.248 2 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...
    AKan 11.259 26 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing.
    AKan 11.260 17 ...can any citizen of the Southern country who happens to think kidnapping a bad thing, say so?
    JBB 11.270 25 ...[John Brown] said he did not believe in moral suasion, he believed in putting the thing through.
    TPar 11.291 26 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who... says one thing...always because he must...
    EPro 11.324 17 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers Europe of the last seventy years...
    HCom 11.343 2 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline. ... Only one thing is certain, I can well die but i cannot afford to misbehave.
    SMC 11.348 20 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky/...
    Wom 11.413 23 The first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection.
    CPL 11.505 10 A man, that strives to make himself a different thing from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
    PLT 12.14 10 ...this watching of the mind...to see the mechanics of the thing, is a little of the detective.
    PLT 12.25 10 The fine tree continues to grow. The same thing happens in the man.
    PLT 12.31 1 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that they believe in the ideas of others.
    PLT 12.40 12 Insight assimilates the thing seen.
    PLT 12.41 4 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held...because we have perceived it is a fact in the nature of things, and in all times and places will and must be the same thing,-is of inestimable value.
    PLT 12.44 24 For weal or woe we clear ourselves from the thing we contemplate.
    PLT 12.46 3 Wishing is one thing; will another.
    PLT 12.47 1 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured. The same thing happens in power to do the right.
    PLT 12.48 19 The grasp is the main thing.
    PLT 12.49 9 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas. Dante, one would say, did the same thing before he wrote the verses.
    PLT 12.51 10 It is a law of Nature that he who looks at one thing must turn his eyes from every other thing in the universe.
    PLT 12.51 11 It is a law of Nature that he who looks at one thing must turn his eyes from every other thing in the universe.
    PLT 12.51 15 ...in learning one thing well you learn all things.
    PLT 12.52 9 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another...
    PLT 12.55 26 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration;...
    PLT 12.58 13 Present power...requires concentration on the moment and the thing to be done.
    Mem 12.107 22 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but a reminder of its law...
    CInt 12.117 12 Few men wish to know how the thing really stands...
    CL 12.163 15 One thing, the lover of Nature cannot tell the best thing he knows.
    CL 12.163 16 ...the lover of Nature cannot tell the best thing he knows.
    Milt1 12.250 25 ...when [Milton] comes to speak of the reason of the thing [Defence of the English People], then he always recovers himself.
    ACri 12.293 2 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...as a general thing;...
    ACri 12.297 22 Carlyle, with his inimitable ways of saying the thing, is next best to the inventor of the thing...
    ACri 12.297 23 Carlyle, with his inimitable ways of saying the thing, is next best to the inventor of the thing...
    MLit 12.320 7 ...the reason why [the true poet] can say one thing well is because his vision extends to the sight of all things...
    MLit 12.323 16 To read [Goethe's] record is a frugality of time, for you shall find no word that does not stand for a thing...
    MLit 12.324 11 ...[Goethe]...pierced the purpose of a thing and studied to reconcile that purpose with his own being.
    MLit 12.327 27 Here was a man [Goethe] who, in the feeling that the thing itself was so admirable as to leave all comment behind, went up and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.
    WSL 12.347 23 [Landor] hates false words, and seeks with care, difficulty and moroseness those that fit the thing.
    AgMs 12.360 12 ...every man has one thing which he specially wishes to say...
    Let 12.395 19 We do a great many selfish things every day; among them all let us do one thing of enlightened selfishness.
    Let 12.395 24 But to be prudent in all the particulars of life, and in this one thing alone religiously forbearing;...and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!
    Let 12.397 7 One thing is plain, that discontent and the luxury of tears will bring nothing to pass.
    Trag 12.407 23 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...a several penalty, nowise grounded in the nature of the thing, but on an arbitrary will.

Thing, n. (1)

    ET8 5.137 15 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the Isle of Man, of the Scandinavian Thing;...

things, n. (894)

    Nat 1.3 23 ...whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.
    Nat 1.4 1 ...whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.
    Nat 1.5 11 Art is applied to the mixture of [man's] will with the same things [unchanged essences]...
    Nat 1.15 4 Such is the constitution of all things...that the primary forms... give us delight in and for themselves;...
    Nat 1.20 11 All those things for which men plough, build, or sail, obey virtue;...
    Nat 1.22 10 ...whosoever has seen a person of...happy genius, will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
    Nat 1.22 16 Beside the relation of things to virtue, they have a relation to thought.
    Nat 1.22 18 The intellect searches out the absolute order of things...
    Nat 1.25 22 ...thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things...
    Nat 1.26 6 Children and savages use only nouns or names of things...
    Nat 1.26 13 ...it is things which are emblematic.
    Nat 1.27 1 Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
    Nat 1.29 4 Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts, savages...converse in figures.
    Nat 1.30 9 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth...old words are perverted to stand for things which are not;...
    Nat 1.30 22 ...wise men...fasten words again to visible things;...
    Nat 1.34 7 Can such things be,/ And overcome us like a summer's cloud,/ Without our special wonder?/
    Nat 1.38 10 Therefore is Space, and therefore Time, that man may know that things are not huddled and lumped...
    Nat 1.40 13 [Man's] victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things...
    Nat 1.40 18 All things are moral;...
    Nat 1.42 3 All things with which we deal, preach to us.
    Nat 1.43 5 All the endless variety of things make an identical impression.
    Nat 1.43 8 Xenophanes complained...that...all things hastened back to Unity.
    Nat 1.43 16 Not only resemblances exist in things whose analogy is obvious...but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness.
    Nat 1.45 22 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female; and these are incomparably the richest informations of the power and order that lie at the heart of things.
    Nat 1.49 17 [To the senses] Things are ultimates...
    Nat 1.52 5 The sensual man conforms thoughts to things;...
    Nat 1.52 6 ...the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
    Nat 1.52 20 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse], and the farthest sundered things are brought together...
    Nat 1.52 23 We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative...
    Nat 1.55 6 ...the philosopher...postpones the apparent order and relations of things to the empire of thought.
    Nat 1.58 8 ...The things that are seen, are temporal;...
    Nat 1.58 9 ...the things that are unseen, are eternal.
    Nat 1.60 5 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...
    Nat 1.61 11 ...to the suburbs and outskirts of things, [nature] is faithful to the cause whence it had its origin.
    Nat 1.62 25 ...the mind is a part of the nature of things;...
    Nat 1.63 26 ...the dread universal essence...is that for which all things exist...
    Nat 1.66 2 In inquiries respecting...the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest.
    Nat 1.67 9 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing unity in his constitution, which evermore separates and classifies things...
    Nat 1.67 17 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is no hint to explain the relation between things and thoughts;...
    Nat 1.69 13 All things unto our flesh are kind/...
    Nat 1.73 26 The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things...
    Nat 1.75 3 To our blindness, these [common] things seem unaffecting.
    Nat 1.75 14 Learn that none of these [common] things is superficial...
    Nat 1.76 20 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
    AmS 1.83 20 Man is thus metamorphosed...into many things.
    AmS 1.84 15 ...do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
    AmS 1.84 17 ...All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.
    AmS 1.85 18 ...[the young mind] finds how to join two things and see in them one nature;...
    AmS 1.85 21 ...tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, [the young mind] goes on tying things together...
    AmS 1.85 23 ...[the young mind] goes on...discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.
    AmS 1.89 24 Books are the best of things, well used;...
    AmS 1.112 11 Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.
    AmS 1.112 12 Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.
    AmS 1.113 10 ...[Swedenborg]...has given in epical parables a theory...of unclean and fearful things.
    DSA 1.120 9 ...when the mind...reveals the laws which traverse the universe and make things what they are, then shrinks the great world...into a mere illustration...
    DSA 1.123 14 Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers...
    DSA 1.124 3 ...whatever opposes that will is everywhere balked and baffled, because things are made so...
    DSA 1.124 9 ...all things proceed out of this same spirit...
    DSA 1.124 13 All things proceed out of the same spirit...
    DSA 1.124 14 All things proceed out of the same spirit, and all things conspire with it.
    DSA 1.125 5 Thought may work cold and intransitive in things, and find no end or unity;...
    DSA 1.127 10 Let this faith depart, and...the things it made become false...
    DSA 1.143 20 ...what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay.
    DSA 1.144 8 When a man comes, all books are legible, all things transparent...
    DSA 1.149 22 Let us thank God that such things [virtuous acts] exist.
    LE 1.157 23 ...when [the scholar] comprehends his duties he...converses with things.
    LE 1.158 18 When [the scholar] has seen that [the intellectual power]...is the soul which made the world...he will know that he...may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.
    LE 1.158 20 A divine pilgrim in nature, all things attend [the scholar's] steps.
    LE 1.160 9 ...we will put our own interpretation on things, and our own things for interpretation.
    LE 1.160 11 ...things must take my scale...
    LE 1.167 19 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things;...
    LE 1.172 4 A profound thought, anywhere, classifies all things...
    LE 1.173 8 Thus is justice done to each generation and individual,- wisdom teaching man...that he shall not bewail himself, as if...he was born into the dotage of things;...
    LE 1.173 18 ...[the scholar] must possess [the world] by putting himself into harmony with the constitution of things.
    LE 1.181 2 [The scholar] is a revealer of things.
    LE 1.181 3 [The scholar] is a revealer of things. Let him first learn the things.
    LE 1.183 23 Hence the temptation to the scholar...to hear the question...to make an answer of words in lack of the oracle of things.
    MN 1.194 21 I cannot,-nor can any man,-speak precisely of things so sublime...
    MN 1.195 8 In the bottom of the heart it is said; I am, and by me, O child! this fair body and world of thine stands and grows. I am: all things are mine: and all mine are thine.
    MN 1.196 5 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line, and will...pierce to the core of things.
    MN 1.205 20 The great Pan of old, who was clothed in a leopard skin to signify the beautiful variety of things...was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    MN 1.206 7 [Every child]...is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
    MN 1.208 4 [A man] need not study where to stand, nor to put things in favorable lights;...
    MN 1.208 5 ...from [a man] all things are illuminated to their centre.
    MN 1.210 2 ...if [a man's] eye is set on the things to be done...then the voice grows faint...
    MN 1.210 4 ...if [a man's] eye is set...not on the truth that is still taught, and for the sake of which the things are to be done, then the voice grows faint...
    MN 1.211 21 [This ecstatic state] respects...the anticipation of all things by the intellect...
    MN 1.212 9 There is something social and intrusive in the nature of all things;...
    MN 1.213 4 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child, and, if they can, cause their nature to pass through his wondering eyes into him, and so all things are mixed.
    MN 1.214 1 Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things...
    MN 1.214 3 Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things...
    MN 1.214 26 The reforms whose fame now fills the land...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
    MN 1.218 2 ...what is Genius but finer love...a love of the flower and perfection of things...
    MN 1.223 7 I praise with wonder this great reality, which seems to drown all things in the deluge of its light.
    MN 1.223 27 All things are known to the soul.
    MR 1.228 22 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to judgment...
    MR 1.238 13 ...whoever takes any of these things [species of property] into his possession, takes the charge of defending them from this troop of enemies...
    MR 1.239 3 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands full,-not to use these things, but to look after them...
    MR 1.242 21 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry, to art... drawing him to these things with a devotion incompatible with good husbandry, that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    MR 1.243 27 I ought to be armed by every part and function of my household...by my traffic. Yet I am almost no party to any of these things.
    MR 1.244 4 We spend our incomes...for a hundred trifles...and not for the things of a man.
    MR 1.247 10 I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me to suicide...
    MR 1.256 18 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind...
    LT 1.261 14 The reason and influence of wealth...the tendencies which have acquired the name of Transcendentalism in Old and New England; the aspect of poetry, as the exponent and interpretation of these things;...these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    LT 1.264 22 ...that only is real which men love and rejoice in;...what they embrace and avow, and not the things which chill, benumb, and terrify them.
    LT 1.268 2 Let us not see the foundations...of a new and better order of things laid, with...an attention preoccupied with trifles.
    LT 1.279 6 ...all things...are phantasms...beside the sanctuary of the heart.
    LT 1.290 19 You will absolve me from the charge of...the desire to say smart things at the expense of whomsoever, when you see that reality is all we prize...
    Con 1.297 11 ...[Saturn] feared again; and nature froze, the things that were made went backward...
    Con 1.298 2 The castle which conservatism is set to defend is the actual state of things, good and bad.
    Con 1.298 4 The project of innovation is the best possible state of things.
    Con 1.298 18 ...[conservatism] goes to make an adroit member of the social frame, [liberalism] to postpone all things to the man himself;...
    Con 1.302 23 Wisdom does not seek a literal rectitude, but...such a one as the faculties of man and the constitution of things will warrant.
    Con 1.305 8 ...you are under the necessity of using the Actual order of things, in order to disuse it;...
    Con 1.306 11 There [the youth] stands...with all the reason of things, one would say, on his side.
    Con 1.313 4 Who put things on this false basis?
    Con 1.313 8 The order of things is as good as the character of the population permits.
    Con 1.324 25 I am primarily engaged to myself...to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence and good will at the heart of things...
    Con 1.326 13 It is much that this old and vituperated system of things has borne so fair a child.
    Tran 1.329 20 ...The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell.
    Tran 1.330 9 [The idealist]...asks the materialist for his grounds of assurance that things are as his senses represent them.
    Tran 1.330 25 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this chair...but he looks at these things as the reverse side of the tapestry...
    Tran 1.331 1 This [idealistic] manner of looking at things transfers every object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there, into the consciousness.
    Tran 1.333 8 The idealist has another measure...namely, the rank which things themselves take in his consciousness;...
    Tran 1.334 7 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...and necessitating him to regard all things as having a subjective or relative existence...
    Tran 1.334 11 From...this beholding of all things in the mind, follow easily [the idealist's] whole ethics.
    Tran 1.334 25 ...let the soul be erect, and all things will go well.
    Tran 1.349 12 You make very free use of these words great and holy, but few things appear to [Transcendentalists] such.
    Tran 1.359 2 Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.363 4 ...our people have their intellectual culture from one country and their duties from another. This false state of things is newly in a way to be corrected.
    YA 1.366 4 The land...is to...bring us into just relations with men and things.
    YA 1.372 3 ...love and good are inevitable, and in the course of things.
    YA 1.377 11 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans, a new order of things springs up;...
    YA 1.379 11 Every line of history inspires a confidence...that things mend. .
    YA 1.379 21 New thoughts, new things.
    YA 1.385 12 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen;...
    YA 1.386 11 How can our young men complain of the poverty of things in New England...
    Hist 2.1 3 There is no great and no small/ To the Soul that maketh all:/ And where it cometh, all things, are;/ And it cometh everywhere./
    Hist 2.5 25 It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things.
    Hist 2.10 13 Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known. The better for him.
    Hist 2.12 20 ...to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred...
    Hist 2.13 9 Genius...far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge...by infinite diameters.
    Hist 2.13 24 Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.
    Hist 2.14 13 There is, at the surface [of history], infinite variety of things;...
    Hist 2.17 20 ...the roots of all things are in man.
    Hist 2.18 9 The trivial experience of every day is always...converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed.
    Hist 2.26 4 Such things [vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all ages...
    Hist 2.30 24 [Prometheus] stands between the unjust justice of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals, and readily suffers all things on their account.
    Hist 2.34 9 ...Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
    Hist 2.34 23 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
    SR 2.60 26 ...a true man...is the centre of things.
    SR 2.61 24 Let a man then...keep things under his feet.
    SR 2.62 27 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a...common day's work; but the things of life are the same to both;...
    SR 2.63 16 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...make his own scale of men and things...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    SR 2.64 10 In that deep force...all things find their common origin.
    SR 2.64 13 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse from things...
    SR 2.64 17 We first share the life by which things exist...
    SR 2.65 8 [Man] may err in the expression of [his involuntary perceptions], but he knows that these things are so...
    SR 2.66 1 It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things;...
    SR 2.66 6 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away...
    SR 2.66 8 All things are made sacred by relation to [divine wisdom]...
    SR 2.66 10 All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause...
    SR 2.69 8 The soul raised over passion...calms itself with knowing that all things go well.
    SR 2.70 17 All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain.
    SR 2.81 19 He who travels...to get somewhat which he does not carry... grows old even in youth among old things.
    SR 2.87 21 Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property...
    Comp 2.97 10 The entire system of things gets represented in every particle.
    Comp 2.99 11 The farmer imagines power and place are fine things.
    Comp 2.100 7 Things refuse to be mismanaged long.
    Comp 2.102 5 All things are moral.
    Comp 2.104 7 The soul says, Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue;...
    Comp 2.104 8 ...the body would have the power over things to its own ends.
    Comp 2.104 11 The soul strives amain to live and work through all things.
    Comp 2.104 12 [The soul] would be the only fact. All things shall be added unto it...
    Comp 2.104 27 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    Comp 2.105 1 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things...as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    Comp 2.105 1 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...power out of strong things, as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    Comp 2.105 3 We can no more halve things and get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside...
    Comp 2.107 15 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.
    Comp 2.109 13 All things are double, one against another.
    Comp 2.111 2 The senses would make things of all persons;...
    Comp 2.114 13 ...because of the dual constitution of things, in labor as in life there can be no cheating.
    Comp 2.115 25 The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice.
    Comp 2.116 1 [The traitor] finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit...
    Comp 2.119 4 The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract...
    Comp 2.120 12 Thus do all things preach the indifferency of circumstances.
    Comp 2.124 13 It is the nature of the soul to appropriate all things.
    Comp 2.124 23 Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things...
    SL 2.131 5 Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms...
    SL 2.131 6 Not only things familiar and stale...are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
    SL 2.134 1 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are...
    SL 2.135 27 We must needs intermeddle and have things in our own way...
    SL 2.136 24 If we look wider, things are all alike;...
    SL 2.139 10 The whole course of things goes to teach us faith.
    SL 2.143 14 The parts of hospitality...and a thousand other things, royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will.
    SL 2.145 5 Over all things that are agreeable to his nature and genius the man has the highest right.
    SL 2.147 7 Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face...
    SL 2.155 20 Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs...
    SL 2.160 7 Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things and the nature of things makes it prevalent.
    Lov1 2.174 25 In looking backward [many men] may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
    Lov1 2.175 4 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain, which created all things anew;...
    Lov1 2.176 16 [Love] makes all things alive and significant.
    Lov1 2.178 22 ...the maiden stands to [the lover] for a representative of all select things and virtues.
    Lov1 2.179 19 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things...
    Lov1 2.179 23 What else did Jean Paul Richter signify, when he said to music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not find.
    Lov1 2.181 11 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun, and unable to see any other objects than those of this world, which are but shadows of real things.
    Lov1 2.183 23 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...
    Lov1 2.183 27 ...things are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws.
    Fdsp 2.189 13 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ All things through thee take nobler form/ And look beyond the earth,/...
    Fdsp 2.192 12 ...all things fly into their places...
    Fdsp 2.196 19 Shall I not be as real as the things I see?
    Fdsp 2.210 6 Why be visited by [your friend] at your own [house]? Are these things material to our covenant?
    Fdsp 2.216 26 ...these things may hardly be said without a sort of treachery to the relation [of friendship].
    Prd1 2.226 23 We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years. ... Such is the value of these matters that a man who knows other things can never know too much of these.
    Prd1 2.231 6 Poetry and prudence should be coincident. ... But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted.
    Prd1 2.232 12 He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
    Prd1 2.236 22 ...the proper administration of outward things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin;...
    Prd1 2.237 10 ...in regard to disagreeable and formidable things, prudence does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage.
    Prd1 2.238 1 In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party;...
    OS 2.270 26 From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things...
    OS 2.272 11 The soul circumscribes all things.
    OS 2.273 20 In common speech we refer all things to time...
    OS 2.273 27 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand, and the like, when we mean that in the nature of things one of the facts we contemplate is external and fugitive, and the other is permanent and connate with the soul.
    OS 2.274 2 The things we now esteem fixed shall...detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience...
    OS 2.280 13 ...the Maker of all things and all persons stands behind us...
    OS 2.280 15 ...the Maker of all things and all persons...casts his dread omniscience through us over things.
    OS 2.284 16 No answer in words can reply to a question of things.
    OS 2.285 4 By the same fire...which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other...
    OS 2.289 5 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which through their eyes beholds again and blesses the things which it hath made.
    OS 2.289 19 The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day for ever.
    OS 2.291 4 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground...
    OS 2.293 14 The things that are really for thee gravitate to thee.
    OS 2.296 14 [The soul] is not wise, but it sees through all things.
    Cir 2.304 26 The man finishes his story...how it puts a new face on all things!
    Cir 2.308 20 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.
    Cir 2.309 25 ...all things are shadows of [God].
    Cir 2.310 6 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon...
    Cir 2.310 10 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon, and which cause the present order of things...
    Cir 2.311 10 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things...
    Cir 2.313 19 Then shall also the Son be subject unto Him who put all things under him...
    Cir 2.314 20 Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart, but...these things proceed from the eternal generation of the soul.
    Cir 2.315 23 Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
    Cir 2.316 7 ...that second man has his own way of looking at things;...
    Cir 2.318 13 I unsettle all things.
    Cir 2.318 18 ...this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.
    Cir 2.319 2 ...all things renew, germinate and spring.
    Int 2.325 23 [Mind's] vision is not like the vision of the eye, but is union with the things known.
    Int 2.326 18 Nature shows all things formed and bound.
    Int 2.326 20 The intellect...detects intrinsic likeness between remote things...
    Int 2.326 21 The intellect...reduces all things into a few principles.
    Int 2.341 21 [The scholar] must worship truth, and forego all things for that...
    Int 2.344 15 [One soul] must treat things and books and sovereign genius as itself also a sovereign.
    Int 2.345 2 ...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
    Int 2.346 20 ...[the Greek philosophers' thought] commands the entire schedule and inventory of things for its illustration.
    Art1 2.354 13 Until one thing comes out from the connection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.
    Art1 2.354 19 ...[the infant's] individual character and his practical power depend on his daily progress in the separation of things...
    Art1 2.356 13 ...excellence of all things is one.
    Art1 2.362 22 ...when we have said all our fine things about the arts, we must end with a frank confession that the arts, as we know them, are but initial.
    Art1 2.365 4 ...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity which needs to roll through all things...
    Art1 2.365 5 ...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity which...is impatient of...things not alive.
    Pt1 3.7 10 ...God has not made some beautiful things...
    Pt1 3.13 9 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming, namely by the beauty of things, which becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed.
    Pt1 3.13 16 Things more excellent than every image, says Jamblichus, are expressed through images.
    Pt1 3.13 18 Things admit of being used as symbols because nature is a symbol...
    Pt1 3.16 1 No imitation or playing of these things [of nature] would content [the coachman or the hunter];...
    Pt1 3.17 5 ...we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things...in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Pt1 3.17 22 Small and mean things serve as well as great symbols.
    Pt1 3.18 23 ...it is dislocation and detachment from the life of God that makes things ugly...
    Pt1 3.18 24 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole... disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.
    Pt1 3.18 25 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole,--re-attaching even artificial things and violation of nature, to nature, by a deeper insight,--disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.
    Pt1 3.20 8 ...words and things...are emblems;...
    Pt1 3.20 11 ...we sympathize with the symbols, and being infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts.
    Pt1 3.20 20 ...the poet...shows us all things in their right series and procession.
    Pt1 3.20 23 ...through that better perception [the poet] stands one step nearer to things...
    Pt1 3.21 19 ...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence...
    Pt1 3.22 17 ...nature does all things by her own hands...
    Pt1 3.22 23 Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things...
    Pt1 3.24 25 The expression [of the poet's thoughts] is organic, or the new type which things themselves take when liberated.
    Pt1 3.25 5 Like the metamorphosis of things into higher organic forms is [the poet's thoughts'] change into melodies.
    Pt1 3.26 8 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but...by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms...
    Pt1 3.26 10 The path of things is silent.
    Pt1 3.26 21 ...beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect [every intellectual man] is capable of a new energy...by abandonment to the nature of things;...
    Pt1 3.27 17 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest...
    Pt1 3.30 19 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when Aristotle defines space to be an immovable vessel in which things are contained;...
    Pt1 3.35 19 I do not know the man in history to whom things stood so uniformly for words [as Swedenborg].
    Pt1 3.37 12 Time and nature yield us many gifts, but not yet the timely man...the reconciler, whom all things await.
    Pt1 3.39 15 Most of the things [the poet] says are conventional, no doubt;...
    Pt1 3.39 19 ...by and by [the poet] says something which is original and beautiful. That charms him. He would say nothing else but such things.
    Pt1 3.39 27 ...as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections [of the poet], it is of the last importance that these things get spoken.
    Exp 3.45 14 All things swim and glitter.
    Exp 3.48 22 An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
    Exp 3.57 27 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things...
    Exp 3.59 14 The whole frame of things preaches indifferency.
    Exp 3.64 17 So many things are unsettled which it is of the first importance to settle;...
    Exp 3.69 22 The persons who compose our company...design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Exp 3.69 25 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done;...
    Exp 3.76 5 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us.
    Exp 3.78 9 We permit all things to ourselves...
    Exp 3.79 25 ...all things sooner or later fall into place.
    Exp 3.81 5 ...we cannot say too little of our constitutional necessity of seeing things under private aspects...
    Exp 3.85 22 We dress our garden, eat our dinners...and these things make no impression...
    Chr1 3.90 27 Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears to share the life of things...
    Chr1 3.96 5 All things exist in the man tinged with the manners of his soul.
    Chr1 3.99 8 That exultation [in events] is only to be checked by the foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities into the deepest shade.
    Chr1 3.101 5 All things work exactly according to their quality and according to their quantity;...
    Chr1 3.101 8 All things...attempt nothing they cannot do, except man only. He has pretension; he wishes and attempts things beyond his force.
    Chr1 3.102 24 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding...new claims on your heart, which will bankrupt you if you have loitered about the old things...
    Chr1 3.109 25 I should think myself very unhappy in my associates if I could not credit the best things in history.
    Chr1 3.111 20 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce.
    Chr1 3.111 22 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love.
    Mrs1 3.124 6 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these, giving in every company the sense of power, which makes things easy to be done which daunt the wise.
    Mrs1 3.128 24 [The working heroes] are the sowers, their sons shall be the reapers, and their sons, in the ordinary course of things, must yield the possession of the harvest to new competitors...
    Mrs1 3.137 9 In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate.
    Mrs1 3.151 4 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said;...
    Gts 3.161 3 Next to things of necessity, the rule for a gift, which one of my friends prescribed, is that we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...
    Gts 3.163 11 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things, for gifts.
    Nat2 3.179 9 ...taking timely warning, and leaving many things unsaid on this topic, let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
    Nat2 3.182 10 Things are so strictly related, that according to the skill of the eye, from any one object the parts and properties of any other may be predicted.
    Nat2 3.185 1 Exaggeration is in the course of things.
    Nat2 3.186 26 All things betray the same calculated profusion.
    Nat2 3.190 27 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway? No, all these things came from successive efforts of these beggars to remove friction from the wheels of life...
    Pol1 3.205 2 Things have their laws, as well as men;...
    Pol1 3.205 3 ...things refuse to be trifled with.
    Pol1 3.211 26 No forms can have any dangerous importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.
    Pol1 3.215 4 If I put myself in the place of my child, and we stand in one thought and see that things are thus or thus, that perception is law for him and me.
    Pol1 3.216 1 That which all things tend to educe;...is character.
    Pol1 3.219 24 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...
    Pol1 3.220 23 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things...
    NR 3.228 13 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects, as the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things.
    NR 3.235 8 ...these abnormal insights of the adepts ought to be normal, and things of course.
    NR 3.235 9 All things show us that on every side we are very near to the best.
    NR 3.236 20 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person...
    NR 3.242 26 It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die...
    NR 3.243 4 Really, all things and persons are related to us...
    NR 3.243 8 All persons, all things which we have known, are here present...
    NR 3.243 12 ...if we saw all things that really surround us we should be imprisoned and unable to move.
    NR 3.243 15 ...all things are pervious to [the soul] and like highways...
    NR 3.243 23 Through solidest eternal things the man finds his road as if they did not subsist...
    NR 3.245 12 ...All things are in contact;...
    NER 3.257 11 It was complained that an education to things was not given.
    NER 3.258 23 These things [Latin, Greek, Mathematics] became stereotyped as education...
    NER 3.261 15 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him;...
    NER 3.262 1 All our things are right and wrong together.
    NER 3.264 26 Friendship and association are very fine things...
    NER 3.270 13 We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.
    NER 3.271 17 ...[every man] he puts himself on the side of his enemies, listening gladly to what they say of him, and accusing himself of the same things.
    NER 3.273 8 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard in his turn...
    NER 3.275 6 [A man] aims at such things as his neighbors prize...
    NER 3.276 7 [A man] is sure that the soul which gives the lie to all things will tell none.
    UGM 4.6 12 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light...
    UGM 4.8 19 Behmen and Swedenborg saw that things were representative.
    UGM 4.8 20 Men are...representative; first, of things, and secondly, of ideas.
    UGM 4.10 14 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good.
    UGM 4.11 11 Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere where it plays a part as indestructible as any other. And to these, their ends, all things continually ascend.
    UGM 4.13 12 Looking where others look, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them.
    UGM 4.13 17 Talk much with any man of vigorous mind, and we acquire very fast the habit of looking at things in the same light...
    UGM 4.20 10 These [leaders and law-givers]...admit us to the constitution of things.
    UGM 4.20 19 ...if persons and things are scores of a celestial music, let us read off the strains.
    UGM 4.24 24 Not one [person] has a misgiving of being wrong. Was it not a bright thought that made things cohere with this bitumen, fastest of cements?
    UGM 4.31 9 Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
    PPh 4.39 11 Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.
    PPh 4.39 18 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    PPh 4.39 22 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato, translating into the vernacular, wittily, his good things.
    PPh 4.46 2 As soon as, with culture, things have cleared up a little...[men and women] desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    PPh 4.47 14 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind.
    PPh 4.48 1 We unite all things by perceiving the law which pervades them;...
    PPh 4.48 6 ...every mental act...recognizes the difference of things.
    PPh 4.50 11 The knowledge that this spirit, which is essentially one, is in one's own and in all other bodies, is the wisdom of one who knows the unity of things [said Krishna].
    PPh 4.50 20 The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu [said Krishna], who is identical with all things...
    PPh 4.51 8 If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly backwards to diversity.
    PPh 4.51 14 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things...
    PPh 4.53 13 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course...
    PPh 4.53 16 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion of...new mills at Lowell. These things are in course, and may be taken for granted.
    PPh 4.53 25 ...Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages, imbibed the idea of one Deity, in which all things are absorbed.
    PPh 4.56 8 Things added to things...are inventories.
    PPh 4.56 9 Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
    PPh 4.56 25 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself.
    PPh 4.57 3 All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and impersonates [Plato's] philosophy.
    PPh 4.62 7 Having paid his homage, as for the human race, to the Illimitable, [Plato] then stood erect, and for the human race affirmed, And yet things are knowable!...
    PPh 4.62 14 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...and now, refreshed and empowered by this worship, the instinct of Europe, namely, culture, returns; and he cries, Yet things are knowable!
    PPh 4.62 15 [Things] are knowable, because being from one, things correspond.
    PPh 4.66 14 Of the five orders of things [said Plato], only four can be taught to the generality of men.
    PPh 4.68 11 All things are in a scale;...
    PPh 4.68 13 All things are symbolical;...
    PPh 4.69 11 All things mount and mount.
    PPh 4.69 14 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things...
    PPh 4.69 17 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things, exciting hilarity and shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters, and it enters in some degree into all things...
    PPh 4.74 26 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice. These things I hear like pipes and drums...
    PPh 4.76 14 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and to cohesion, contact is necessary. I know not what can be said in reply to this criticism but that we have come to a fact in the nature of things: an oak is not an orange.
    PPh 4.77 14 ...countries, and things of which countries are made...have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
    PPh 4.78 7 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,-- which will not be disposed of.
    PNR 4.86 6 [Plato] was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit...a power which is the key at once to the centrality and the evanescence of things.
    PNR 4.86 17 ...all things have symmetry in [Plato's] tablet.
    PNR 4.87 1 The names of things, too, [to Plato] are fatal, following the nature of things.
    PNR 4.87 2 The names of things, too, [to Plato] are fatal, following the nature of things.
    PNR 4.87 18 [Plato] describes his own ideal, when he paints, in Timaeus, a god leading things from disorder into order.
    SwM 4.94 1 For other things, I make poetry of them; but the moral sentiment makes poetry of me.
    SwM 4.96 6 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
    SwM 4.96 12 ...all things in nature being linked and related...nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    SwM 4.96 23 ...by being assimilated to the original soul, by whom and after whom all things subsist, the soul of man does then easily flow into all things...
    SwM 4.96 25 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it...
    SwM 4.102 25 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation, as from a tower, over nature and arts, without ever losing sight of the texture and sequence of things, almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.
    SwM 4.106 20 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the centrality of man in nature, and the connection that subsists throughout all things...
    SwM 4.109 8 ...every thing at the end of one use is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.
    SwM 4.113 2 [Swedenborg] noted that in [nature] proceeding from first principles through her several subordinations, there was no state through which she did not pass, as if her path lay through all things.
    SwM 4.113 25 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails;.../
    SwM 4.116 2 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur... throughout nature...
    SwM 4.116 5 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur... which correspond so entirely to supreme and spiritual things that one would swear that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
    SwM 4.116 21 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted.
    SwM 4.117 16 [Correspondence] required an insight that could rank things in order and series;...
    SwM 4.117 26 ...literature has no book in which the symbolism of things is scientifically opened.
    SwM 4.118 13 ...whether it be that these things will not be intellectually learned, or that many centuries must elaborate and compose so rare and opulent a soul,--there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    SwM 4.118 20 ...there is no comet...or fungus, that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    SwM 4.119 25 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees, with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.
    SwM 4.119 27 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees, with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.
    SwM 4.120 13 The correspondence between thoughts and things henceforward occupied [Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.120 19 The reason why all and single things, in the heavens and on earth, are representative, is because they exist from an influx of the Lord, through heaven [said Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.123 13 ...[Swedenborg] is a rich discoverer, and of things which most import us to know.
    SwM 4.123 16 [Swedenborg] saw things in their law...
    SwM 4.125 1 [To Swedenborg] All things in the universe arrange themselves to each person anew, according to his ruling love.
    SwM 4.127 14 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted and the law stated...with that scope for ascension of state which the nature of things requires.
    SwM 4.133 17 All [Swedenborg's] types mean the same few things.
    SwM 4.136 23 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he sees with eyes and in the richest symbolic forms the awful truth of things...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    SwM 4.143 19 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg], who, by his perception of symbols, saw the poetic construction of things...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    MoS 4.150 7 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with... cities and persons, and the bringing certain things to pass;...
    MoS 4.152 9 Things always bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
    MoS 4.157 8 [The skeptic says] Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop...
    MoS 4.157 10 [The skeptic says] Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike?
    MoS 4.169 3 Montaigne...likes pain because it makes him feel himself and realize things;...
    MoS 4.170 11 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...
    MoS 4.171 8 The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic...
    MoS 4.180 15 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
    MoS 4.181 26 ...[the spiritualist] is forced to say, O, these things will be as they must be...
    MoS 4.185 9 Things seem to say one thing, and say the reverse.
    MoS 4.185 11 Things seem to tend downward...
    MoS 4.186 6 ...let [a man] learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence without losing his reverence;...
    ShP 4.197 2 Other men say wise things as well as [the poet];...
    ShP 4.197 3 Other men say wise things as well as [the poet]; only they say a good many foolish things, and do not know when they have spoken wisely.
    ShP 4.213 12 This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...
    ShP 4.213 17 Things were mirrored in [Shakespeare's] poetry without loss or blur...
    ShP 4.214 11 No recipe can be given for the making of a Shakspeare; but the possibility of the translation of things into song is demonstrated.
    ShP 4.217 3 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind...
    NMW 4.226 25 ...Mirabeau...felt that these things which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said them...
    NMW 4.229 4 [Napoleon] has not lost his native sense and sympathy with things.
    NMW 4.229 7 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...
    NMW 4.258 13 It was the nature of things...which baulked and ruined [Napoleon];...
    GoW 4.261 8 All things are engaged in writing their history.
    GoW 4.262 26 [The writer] counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable.
    GoW 4.264 16 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers...who are impelled to exhibit the facts in order, and so to supply the axis on which the frame of things turns.
    GoW 4.264 20 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar. It is an end...prepared in the original casting of things.
    GoW 4.264 24 [The scholar] is...one of the estates of the realm, provided and prepared...in the knitting and contexture of things.
    GoW 4.267 14 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker] each prates of spirit, there is no spirit, but repetition, which is anti-spiritual. But where are his new things of to-day?
    GoW 4.271 6 We conceive...modern life to respect a multitude of things, which is distracting.
    GoW 4.274 21 [Goethe] has said the best things about nature that ever were said.
    GoW 4.276 4 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years. He may as well see if it is true as another. He sifts it. I am here, he would say, to be the measure and judge of these things.
    GoW 4.281 17 There must be a man behind the book; a personality...which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise;...
    GoW 4.281 18 There must be a man behind the book; a personality... holding things because they are things.
    GoW 4.281 19 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow.
    GoW 4.286 1 The reaction of things on the man is the only noteworthy result.
    ET1 5.13 22 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine.
    ET1 5.20 5 There may be, [Wordsworth] said, in America some vulgarity in manner, but that 's not important. That comes of the pioneer state of things.
    ET1 5.20 11 I [Wordsworth] am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there [in America], which, in England,--God knows, are done in England every day, but would never be spoken of.
    ET5 5.78 14 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie.
    ET5 5.85 13 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details, or the not driving things too finely...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET7 5.117 26 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King Aurelius, uncle of Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
    ET8 5.130 9 [The English] are...in all things very much steeped in their temperament...
    ET9 5.146 11 ...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...
    ET10 5.162 27 All things precious, or useful...are sucked into this commerce and floated to London.
    ET10 5.164 20 Vested rights are awful things...
    ET11 5.174 22 The things these English have done were not done without peril of life...
    ET11 5.186 9 ...[English nobility] see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius...
    ET11 5.191 2 Castles are proud things, but 't is safest to be outside of them.
    ET11 5.192 16 In the reign of the Fourth George, things do not seem to have mended [in England]...
    ET12 5.211 19 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors, and to the end of a knowledge how the things whereof they treat really stand...
    ET13 5.228 25 The English, abhorring change in all things...are dreadfully given to cant.
    ET13 5.230 27 Electricity cannot be made fast...so that you shall...keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore;...
    ET14 5.233 3 ...the Englishman...takes hold of things by the right end...
    ET14 5.241 26 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...[Bacon's] doctrine of poetry, which accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    ET16 5.274 26 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET17 5.291 3 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits], now revised after seven busy years have much changed men and things in England, I have abstained from reference to persons...
    ET19 5.310 19 ...these things are not for me to say; these compliments, though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these merits more.
    F 6.1 4 Birds with auguries on their wings/ Chanted undeceiving things,/ [The bard] to beckon, him to warn;/...
    F 6.14 11 In science we have to consider two things...
    F 6.15 2 We have two things,-the circumstance, and the life.
    F 6.18 22 In a large city, the most casual things, and things whose beauty lies in their casuality, are produced as punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
    F 6.25 16 ...the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things...
    F 6.26 8 All things are touched and changed by [the mind].
    F 6.26 15 Where [the mind] shines...all things make a musical or pictorial impression.
    F 6.31 1 ...whether, seeing these two things, fate and power, we are permitted to believe in unity?
    F 6.38 4 [A creature] is not possible until the invisible things are right for him...
    F 6.39 10 Things ripen...
    F 6.47 4 ...hence the high caution, that since we are sure of having what we wish, we beware to ask only for high things.
    F 6.48 27 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.
    Pow 6.54 6 [All successful men] believed that things went not by luck, but by law;...
    Pow 6.54 8 [All successful men] believed...that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
    Pow 6.56 15 One man...is in sympathy with the course of things;...
    Pow 6.73 6 Ah! said a brave painter to me, thinking on these things, if a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working.
    Wth 6.85 24 ...the mind acts in bringing things from where they abound to where they are wanted;...
    Wth 6.88 15 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf. Then...she urges him to the acquisition of such things as belong to him.
    Wth 6.89 27 ...all grand and subtile things...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Wth 6.90 8 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as...the degree in which he takes up things into himself.
    Wth 6.98 7 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope! and of those, scarcely one would like the trouble of keeping it in order and exhibiting it. So of electrical and chemical apparatus, and many the like things.
    Wth 6.99 10 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    Wth 6.103 12 The value of a dollar is, to buy just things;...
    Wth 6.107 3 ...every man has a certain satisfaction...when he sees that things themselves dictate the price...
    Wth 6.108 23 One might say that all things are of one price;...
    Wth 6.109 14 The ancient poet said, The gods sell all things at a fair price.
    Wth 6.120 26 The rule is...to learn practically the secret...that things themselves refuse to be mismanaged...
    Wth 6.123 10 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture, the garden, the field and the road. So Dock Square yields the point, and things have their own way.
    Wth 6.125 6 ...these things are so in nature. All things ascend...
    Wth 6.125 7 ...these things are so in nature. All things ascend...
    Ctr 6.143 12 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself. Thenceforward it takes place with other things...
    Ctr 6.145 8 I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel;...
    Ctr 6.153 6 ...we want cities as the centres where the best things are found...
    Ctr 6.154 26 How can you mind...even the bringing things to pass,--when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
    Ctr 6.160 23 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order will never quite lose sight of this...
    Ctr 6.163 20 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.
    Bhr 6.169 20 Manners are the happy way of doing things;...
    Bhr 6.189 10 The things of a man for which we visit him were done in the dark and cold.
    Wsp 6.205 14 ...some of the Pacific islanders flog their gods when things take an unfavorable turn.
    Wsp 6.212 14 ...the official men can in no wise help you in any question of to-day, they deriving entirely from the old dead things.
    Wsp 6.213 10 There is a principle which is the basis of things...
    Wsp 6.217 10 ...not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    Wsp 6.219 20 Religion or worship is the attitude of those...who see that against all appearances the nature of things works for truth and right forever.
    Wsp 6.220 17 ...all things go by number, rule and weight.
    Wsp 6.221 16 Law it is...which is smallest of the least, and largest of the large; all, and knowing all things;...
    Wsp 6.222 19 ...things are as broad as they are long, is not a rule for Littleton or Portland, but for the universe.
    Wsp 6.223 17 ...things themselves are detective.
    Wsp 6.226 22 This reaction, this sincerity is the property of all things.
    Wsp 6.230 25 He only is rightly immortal to whom all things are immortal.
    Wsp 6.241 1 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.
    CbW 6.254 20 There is a tendency in things to right themselves...
    CbW 6.254 22 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
    CbW 6.257 27 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who, because he does not see many things, sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration...
    CbW 6.260 21 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. ... But the wise gods say, No, we have better things for thee.
    CbW 6.264 14 All healthy things are sweet-tempered.
    CbW 6.264 17 ...whoever sees the law which distributes things, does not despond...
    CbW 6.274 7 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you...have been carried in a neat equipage or in a ridiculous truck: these things are forgotten so quickly...
    CbW 6.277 8 Youthful aspirations are fine things...but will you stick?
    CbW 6.278 11 I prefer to say, with the old prophet, Seekest thou great things? seek them not...
    Bty 6.281 3 Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
    Bty 6.288 19 The question of Beauty takes us out of surfaces to thinking of the foundations of things.
    Bty 6.289 11 We ascribe beauty to that...which stands related to all things;...
    Bty 6.302 26 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
    Bty 6.305 14 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things.
    Ill 6.308 5 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Ill 6.310 3 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects, and which shames the fine things to which we foppishly compare them.
    Ill 6.321 27 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes. Suddenly the mist rolls up and reveals them, and we think how much good time is gone that might have been saved had any hint of these things been shown.
    SS 7.15 23 ...most men...say good things to you in private, but will not stand to them in public.
    Civ 7.20 11 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say,--childish illusions passing daily away and he seeing things really and comprehensively,--is made by tribes.
    Art2 7.39 4 ...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Art2 7.39 14 ...Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
    Art2 7.42 20 ...in our handiwork, we do few things by muscular force...
    Art2 7.45 5 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.49 14 The wonders of Shakspeare are things which he saw whilst he stood aside...
    Art2 7.49 17 The poet aims...to subject to thought things seen without (voluntary) thought.
    Art2 7.53 16 The gayest charm of beauty has a root in the constitution of things.
    Art2 7.55 7 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world...the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Elo1 7.75 23 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They know how...to put things into a practical shape...
    Elo1 7.82 12 ...if there be personality in the orator, the face of things changes.
    Elo1 7.89 20 Where [the orator] looks, all things fly to their places.
    Elo1 7.94 16 ...whilst [the preacher] speaks things, I feel that he is touching some of my relations, and I am uneasy;...
    DL 7.106 11 [The child's] imaginative life dresses all things in their best.
    DL 7.109 17 A man's money...should represent to him the things he would willingliest do with it.
    DL 7.109 22 We ask the price of many things in shops and stalls...
    DL 7.109 23 ...some things each man buys without hesitation;...
    DL 7.110 8 Do not ask [the scholar] to...join a company to build a factory or a fishing-craft. These things are also to be done, but not by such as he.
    DL 7.112 5 The shortest enumeration of our wants in this rugged climate appalls us by the multitude of things not easy to be done.
    DL 7.112 24 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own accomplishments and growth; or persons are treated as things.
    DL 7.116 17 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor...
    DL 7.118 6 With a change of aim has followed a change of the whole scale by which men and things were wont to be measured.
    DL 7.118 27 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost. These things...they can get for a dollar at any village.
    DL 7.119 10 Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveller; but let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things.
    DL 7.129 9 ...when men shall meet as they should...it shall be the festival of Nature, which all things symbolize;...
    DL 7.129 11 ...perhaps Love is only the highest symbol of Friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
    Farm 7.144 24 ...the air is the receptacle from which all things spring...
    Farm 7.145 6 All things are flowing...
    Farm 7.146 20 ...[the farmer]...is taught the power that lurks in petty things.
    WD 7.157 3 Man is the meter of all things, said Aristotle;...
    WD 7.163 13 Things begin to obey [man].
    WD 7.163 27 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the wave. It is however getting a little doubtful. Things have an ugly look still.
    WD 7.170 20 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...
    WD 7.179 3 I am of the opinion of Pliny that whilst we are musing on these things, we are adding to the length of our lives.
    WD 7.179 15 ...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
    WD 7.179 23 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments...which attach the dull men and things we know to the First Cause?
    Boks 7.189 3 ...the best [books] are but records, and not the things recorded;...
    Boks 7.212 25 The man asks for a novel,--that is, asks leave for a few hours...to paint things as they ought to be.
    Boks 7.214 6 ...books that...distribute things...after the laws of right reason... put us on our feet again...
    Boks 7.220 2 Is there any geography in these things [sacred thoughts]?
    Clbs 7.229 19 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...and the infinite opulence of things is again shown him.
    Clbs 7.230 9 Things are in pairs...
    Clbs 7.231 6 The reply of old Isocrates comes so often to mind,--The things which are now seasonable I cannot say; and for the things which I can say it is not now the time.
    Clbs 7.231 7 The reply of old Isocrates comes so often to mind,--The things which are now seasonable I cannot say; and for the things which I can say it is not now the time.
    Clbs 7.233 26 Diderot said of the Abbe Galiani: He was a treasure in rainy days; and if the cabinet-makers made such things, everybody would have one in the country.
    Clbs 7.246 26 Things which you fancy wrong [manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] know to be right and profitable;...
    Clbs 7.247 1 Things which you fancy wrong [manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] know to be right and profitable; things which you reckon superstitious they know to be true.
    Clbs 7.248 22 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
    Cour 7.274 23 Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world;...
    Suc 7.295 8 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;--yet they are two things.
    Suc 7.295 26 Feel yourself, and be not daunted by things.
    Suc 7.300 26 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which stream through things...
    Suc 7.302 17 Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
    Suc 7.311 16 ...the inner life...does not learn to do things...
    OA 7.326 25 [The youth] is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.
    OA 7.329 2 The best things are of secular growth.
    PI 8.3 15 The common sense which...takes things at their word...believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
    PI 8.3 16 The common sense which...takes...things as they appear,-- believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
    PI 8.5 19 ...we see that things wear different names and faces, but belong to one family;...
    PI 8.9 6 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.12 4 ...nothing but great weight in things can afford a quite literal speech.
    PI 8.19 8 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.19 21 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists... in producing apparent imitations of unapparent natures, and inscribing things unapparent in the apparent fabrication of the world;...
    PI 8.19 24 ...the world exists for thought: it is to make appear things which hide...
    PI 8.20 3 Bacon expressed the same sense in his definition, Poetry accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind;...
    PI 8.20 11 ...[Swedenborg said]: Names, countries, nations and the like are not at all known to those who are in heaven; they have no idea of such things, but of the realities signified thereby.
    PI 8.21 5 The poet contemplates the central identity, sees it undulate and roll this way and that, with divine flowings, through remotest things;...
    PI 8.22 17 [Man] wishes to be rich, to be old, to be young, that things may obey him.
    PI 8.23 20 Whatever one act we do, whatever one thing we learn, we are doing and learning all things...
    PI 8.25 2 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure.
    PI 8.27 5 As a power [poetry] is the perception of the symbolic character of things...
    PI 8.28 6 The words [Fancy and Imagination] are often used, and the things confounded.
    PI 8.29 22 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can penetrate...
    PI 8.29 24 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this correspondence of things to thoughts...is elemental, or in the core of things.
    PI 8.36 17 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which...the tritest and nearest ways and words and things have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    PI 8.37 7 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage...only these things, placed in their true order, are poetry;...
    PI 8.42 1 Events or things are only the fulfilment of the prediction of the faculties.
    PI 8.42 12 ...guided by [thoughts and laws], [the poet] is ascending from an interest in in visible things to an interest in that which they signify...
    PI 8.42 25 We cannot know things by words and writing...
    PI 8.47 4 Young people like...things in pairs and alternatives;...
    PI 8.51 14 Time sadly overcometh all things...
    PI 8.52 15 ...when we rise into the world of thought, and think of these things [food, fire, our work, tools, and material necessities] only for what they signify, speech refines into order and harmony.
    PI 8.57 10 [The early bard's] advantage is that his words are things...
    PI 8.58 9 ...[The wind] has no fear, nor the rude wants of created things./
    PI 8.61 6 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] You were wont to know me well, but thus things are interwoven...
    PI 8.71 19 The nature of things is flowing...
    PI 8.71 27 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms. Hence the shudder of joy with which in each clear moment we recognize the metamorphosis, because it is always a conquest, a surprise from the heart of things.
    SA 8.80 2 Whilst almost everybody has a supplicating eye turned on events and things and other persons, a few natures are central...
    SA 8.89 15 ...now and then we say things to our mates, or hear things from them, which seem to put it out of the power of the parties to be strangers again.
    SA 8.89 16 ...now and then we say things to our mates, or hear things from them, which seem to put it out of the power of the parties to be strangers again.
    SA 8.96 17 ...things said for conversation are chalk eggs.
    SA 8.96 18 Don't say things.
    Elo2 8.110 3 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things...when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Elo2 8.111 24 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot by the unexpected turn things may take...
    Elo2 8.116 21 ...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things...surprises [the people] with his tidings...
    Res 8.138 21 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things,--I am invigorated...
    Res 8.151 9 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country wants all things on a low tone...
    Comc 8.159 4 Separate any object...from the connection of things...it becomes at once comic;...
    Comc 8.159 26 ...the best of all jokes is the sympathetic contemplation of things by the understanding from the philosopher's point of view.
    Comc 8.169 12 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as to see things turned upside down...
    Comc 8.170 20 He whom all things should serve, serves some one of his own tools.
    QO 8.175 4 All things wear a lustre which is the gift of the present, and a tarnish of time.
    QO 8.197 2 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor, reading out of it better things than the author wrote...
    QO 8.200 1 ...all things are in flux.
    QO 8.200 21 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things...
    PC 8.210 27 People have in all countries been burned and stoned for saying things which are commonplaces at all our breakfast-tables.
    PC 8.221 23 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world,-Truth...the soundness and health of things...
    PC 8.223 21 All things admit of this extended sense...
    PC 8.226 25 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man; it is sympathy, love of the same things...
    PC 8.227 5 Great men,-the age goes on their credit; but all the rest, when their wires are continued and not cut, can do as signal things...
    PPo 8.240 17 Solomon had three talismans...second, the glass in which he saw the secrets of his enemies and the causes of all things, figured;...
    PPo 8.251 11 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better:-What lovelier forms things wear,/ Now that the Shah comes back!/...
    PPo 8.262 4 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./
    Insp 8.274 23 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect, and a life according to the things themselves.
    Insp 8.286 11 The French have a proverb to the effect that not the day only, but all things have their morning...
    Grts 8.313 27 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say, with the old Hebrew prophet, Seekest thou great things?-seek them not;...
    Grts 8.314 9 It is easy to draw traits [of greatness] from Napoleon, who... was intellectual and knew the law of things.
    Imtl 8.323 22 ...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present existence as of that which will follow it. Things being so, I feel that if this new faith can give us more certainty, it deserves to be received.
    Imtl 8.327 22 Milton anticipated the leading thought of Swedenborg, when he wrote, in Paradise Lost,-What if Earth/ Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein/ Each to the other like more than on earth is thought?/
    Imtl 8.327 25 Swedenborg...announced many things true and admirable...
    Imtl 8.334 3 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive, designs so wise...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Imtl 8.342 18 Ignorant people confound reverence for the intuitions with egotism. There is no confusion in the things themselves.
    Imtl 8.347 13 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes.
    Imtl 8.352 1 Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies, firm among fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief.
    Dem1 10.10 18 Things are significant enough, Heaven knows;...
    Dem1 10.17 24 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... This, which seemed to insert itself between all other things...I named the Demoniacal...
    Dem1 10.19 11 I set down these things as I find them...
    Dem1 10.21 14 There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant...
    Dem1 10.26 3 It is wholly a false view to couple these things [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] in any manner with the religious nature and sentiment...
    Aris 10.35 8 ...[the young adventurer] lends himself to each malignant party that assails what is eminent. He will one day know that this is...a distinction in the nature of things;...
    Aris 10.39 7 I wish...men of universal politics, who are interested in things in proportion to their truth and magnitude;...
    Aris 10.43 26 ...when the well-mixed man is born...capable of impressions from all things, and not too susceptible,-then no gift need be bestowed on him...
    Aris 10.46 23 ...the constitution of things has distributed a new quality or talent to each mind...
    Aris 10.46 25 ...the revolution of things is always bringing the need, now of this, now of that...
    Aris 10.54 4 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts;...the coldest had found themselves drawn to their neighbors by interest in the same things.
    Aris 10.54 24 The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man. I mean the things themselves shall be judges, and determine.
    Aris 10.56 24 It is a measure of culture, the number of things taken for granted.
    Aris 10.58 7 Prosperity and pound-cake are for very young gentlemen, whom such things content;...
    Aris 10.64 17 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly the habit of considering...things in masses...
    Aris 10.65 7 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit...will use a high prudence in the conduct of life to guard himself from being dissipated on many things.
    PerF 10.77 24 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is...his way of classifying and seeing things...
    PerF 10.84 15 Things work to their ends, not to yours...
    PerF 10.86 5 Things are saturated with the moral law.
    PerF 10.87 19 ...things endure as they share [our moral sentiment];...
    Chr2 10.89 6 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/ Suddenly it will uplift/ Your eyelids to the sphere:/ Wait a little, you shall see/ The portraiture of things to be./
    Chr2 10.91 15 Surely it is not to prove or show the truth of things...no, it is for benefit, that all subsists.
    Chr2 10.93 27 [The moral intuition]...looks to no superior essence. It is the reason of things.
    Chr2 10.98 21 If all things are taken away, I have still all things in my relation to the Eternal.
    Chr2 10.98 22 If all things are taken away, I have still all things in my relation to the Eternal.
    Chr2 10.100 19 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...and all its thoughts are perceptions of things as they are, without any infirmity of earth.
    Chr2 10.102 23 ...when used with emphasis, [character] points to what no events can change, that is, a will built on the reason of things.
    Edc1 10.126 16 ...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear. No horizon shuts down. He sees things in their causes...
    Edc1 10.127 9 Victory over things is the office of man.
    Edc1 10.127 11 Victory over things is the office of man. Of course, until it is accomplished, it is the war and insult of things over him.
    Edc1 10.132 17 Day creeps after day, each full of facts, dull, strange, despised things, that we cannot enough despise...
    Edc1 10.132 20 Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot enough despise,-call heavy, prosaic and desert. The time we seek to kill: the attention it is elegant to divert from things around us.
    Edc1 10.147 7 Make [a boy] call things by their right names.
    Edc1 10.159 12 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you...are the fountain of an energy that goes pulsing on with waves of benefit...to the circumference of things.
    Supl 10.164 8 If the talker [with the superlative temperament] lose a tooth, he thinks the universal thaw and dissolution of things has come.
    Supl 10.168 26 The first valuable power in a reasonable mind, one would say, was...the power to receive things as they befall...
    Supl 10.169 12 It seems as if inflation were a disease incident to too much use of words, and the remedy lay in recourse to things.
    Supl 10.177 26 ...the Orientals excel in costly arts...things which are the poetry and superlative of commerce.
    SovE 10.189 4 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    SovE 10.189 26 See how these things look in the page of history.
    SovE 10.199 11 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is...a department...to which the tests and judgment men are ready enough to show on other things, do not apply.
    Prch 10.218 24 ...I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the new order of things.
    Prch 10.221 4 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...
    Prch 10.221 7 The understanding presumes in things above its sphere...
    Prch 10.225 5 ...it is clear...is it not, that...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true...this...will give...not more facts, nor new combinations, but divination, or direct intuition of the state of men and things?
    Prch 10.225 27 ...only those distinctions hold which are, in the nature of things, not matters of positive ordinance.
    Prch 10.226 9 We must reconcile ourselves to the new order of things.
    Prch 10.228 27 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    Prch 10.230 7 The man of practice or worldly force requires of the preacher a talent, a force...the same as his own, but wholly applied to the priest's things.
    Prch 10.230 9 [The man of practice or worldly force] does not forgive an application in the preacher to the merchant's things.
    Prch 10.232 13 The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain;...
    Prch 10.237 17 ...the upper eyes behold causes and the connection of things.
    MoL 10.250 12 [Nature says to the American] Other things you have begun to do,-to strike off the chains which snuffling hypocrites had bound on a weaker race.
    MoL 10.255 14 Our people...do not wish, of all things, to be in the minority.
    Schr 10.263 15 The scholar is here to fill others with love and courage by confirming their trust in the love and wisdom which are at the heart of all things;...
    Schr 10.271 19 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread, because they have a royal right in these and in all things...
    Schr 10.271 22 ...[genius and virtue] are the First Good, of which Plato affirms that all things are for its sake...
    Schr 10.272 2 ...men know that ideas are the parents of men and things;...
    Schr 10.284 2 ...manners, temper, lion-heart, are all good things...
    Schr 10.285 16 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real elemental things...
    Schr 10.288 12 ...it is so much easier to say many things than to explain one.
    Plu 10.300 5 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words...
    Plu 10.308 4 [Plutarch] says of Socrates that he endeavored to bring reason and things together...
    Plu 10.311 1 ...though curious in the questions of the schools on the nature and genesis of things, [Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
    Plu 10.311 14 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things;...
    LLNE 10.323 1 Of old things all are over old,/ Of good things none are good enough;-/ We 'll show that we can help to frame/ A world of other stuff./ Rob Roy's Grave. Wordsworth.
    LLNE 10.323 2 Of old things all are over old,/ Of good things none are good enough;-/ We 'll show that we can help to frame/ A world of other stuff./ Rob Roy's Grave. Wordsworth.
    LLNE 10.327 16 Anciently, society was in the course of things.
    LLNE 10.355 23 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way...
    LLNE 10.359 4 Housekeepers say, There are a thousand things to everything...
    EzRy 10.393 19 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had in saying difficult and unspeakable things;...
    EzRy 10.394 20 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable...in his exhortations and prayers. He...said on the instant the best things in the world.
    MMEm 10.414 4 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.418 5 Happy beginning of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] bargain, though the sale of the place [Elm Vale] appears to me one of the worst things for me at this time.
    MMEm 10.427 16 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith that, at some moment of His existence, I was present...
    Thor 10.457 13 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...or whether it was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about.
    Thor 10.463 18 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to, and has made up her mind not to hear the railroad-whistle. But things respect the devout mind, and a mental ecstasy was never interrupted.
    Thor 10.472 4 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
    Thor 10.479 5 The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined [Thoreau] to put every statement in a paradox.
    Thor 10.483 24 Of what significance the things you can forget?
    Carl 10.490 2 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man...displeased and hindered by all men and things about him...
    Carl 10.492 6 [Young men] go for free institutions, for letting things alone...[Carlyle] for stringent government...
    Carl 10.497 13 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men, instead of art and fine fancies and poetry and such things, to address themselves to the problem of society.
    LS 11.15 25 ...it does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul, all things considered, ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists [concerning the Lord's Supper].
    HDC 11.40 12 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal other people in these things;...
    HDC 11.43 24 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...town and farm lines to be run. These things must be done, govern who might.
    HDC 11.44 19 In 1635, the [General] Court say, whereas particular towns have many things which concern only themselves, it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    HDC 11.52 18 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum...and this was all they regarded. But you may see the English mind no such things...
    HDC 11.61 20 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.
    HDC 11.83 24 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a community...where no man has much time for words, in his search after things;...
    LVB 11.96 2 However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor.
    EWI 11.104 2 We sympathize very tenderly here with the poor aggrieved [West Indian] planter, of whom so many unpleasant things are said;...
    EWI 11.104 14 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince.
    EWI 11.105 6 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated. The more it was searched, the more shocking anecdotes came up,-things not to be spoken.
    EWI 11.108 14 [Thomas Clarkson] began to ask himself if these things [facts about slavery in the West Indies] could be true; and if they were, he could no longer rest.
    EWI 11.126 7 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that if the state of things in the islands [of the West Indies] was altered, if the slaves had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...
    EWI 11.133 5 ...I am loath to say harsh things...
    EWI 11.133 21 It is so easy to omit to speak, or even to be absent when delicate things are to be handled.
    EWI 11.139 18 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely, to put every man on his merits...
    EWI 11.139 24 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...who owe all their place to the opportunities which the older order of things allowed them, to deceive and defraud men, shudder at the change...
    EWI 11.147 24 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things affirms it in the heart;...
    War 11.151 9 Looked at in this general and historical way, many things wear a very different face from that they show near by, and one at a time...
    War 11.160 11 [The human race] have nearly exhausted all the good and all the evil of this [first brutish] form: they have held as fast to this degradation as their worst enemy could desire; but all things have an end, and so has this.
    War 11.165 15 We surround ourselves always...with true images of ourselves in things...
    War 11.166 10 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...
    War 11.170 4 The question naturally arises, How is this new aspiration of the human mind [towards peace] to be made visible and real? How is it to pass out of thoughts into things?
    FSLC 11.192 13 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible...
    FSLC 11.201 21 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well...disown him...
    FSLC 11.202 25 [Webster] saw things as they were...
    FSLN 11.221 21 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things,-grand things if he had them...
    FSLN 11.221 23 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things,-grand things if he had them, and, if he had them not, only to abstain from saying unfit things...
    FSLN 11.222 12 In [Webster's] statement things lay in daylight;...
    FSLN 11.223 7 ...[Webster's] head distributed things in their right places...
    FSLN 11.225 11 Nobody doubts that there were good and plausible things to be said on the part of the South.
    FSLN 11.231 20 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist;...the order of things...on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.
    FSLN 11.234 16 These things show that no forms...are of any use in themselves.
    FSLN 11.236 16 The insight of the religious sentiment will disclose to [man] unexpected aids in the nature of things.
    JBS 11.276 3 A man there came, whence none could tell,/ Bearing a touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the land/ By its unerrring spell./
    TPar 11.291 25 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who does not in generous company say generous things, and in mean company base things...
    TPar 11.291 26 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who does not in generous company say generous things, and in mean company base things...
    ACiv 11.309 21 We want a state of things in which crime shall not pay.
    HCom 11.341 14 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things.
    SMC 11.348 11 These things are dear to every man that lives,/ And life prized more for what it lends than gives./
    SMC 11.348 17 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    SMC 11.352 13 ...in the necessities of the hour, [Americans]...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception, believing it insignificant. But the moral law, the nature of things, did not wink at it...
    SMC 11.354 11 The secret architecture of things begins to disclose itself;...
    SMC 11.354 12 The secret architecture of things begins to disclose itself; the fact that all things were made on a basis of right;...
    SMC 11.354 15 ...opposition to [justice] is against the nature of things;...
    EdAd 11.382 4 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men/...
    EdAd 11.389 27 ...men of a solid genius are only interested in substantial things.
    Wom 11.406 19 'T is [women's] mood and tone that is important. Does their mind misgive them, or are they firm and cheerful? 'T is a true report that things are going ill or well.
    Wom 11.410 14 The spiritual force of man is as much shown...in his fancy and imagination,-attaching deep meanings to things and to arbitrary inventions of no real value,-as in his perception of truth.
    Wom 11.418 25 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not to be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
    Wom 11.423 10 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are...made up of things not to be spoken...
    SHC 11.436 8 I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good.
    Humb 11.457 19 The wonderful Humboldt...marches an army, gathering all things as he goes.
    CPL 11.498 13 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things...
    CPL 11.500 22 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses? For my part, they have been the only things I remembered...when all things else were blurred and defaced.
    CPL 11.500 23 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses? For my part, they have been the only things I remembered...when all things else were blurred and defaced.
    CPL 11.500 24 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses? For my part, they have been the only things I remembered...when all things else were blurred and defaced. All things have put on mourning but they...
    CPL 11.502 13 Thought is the most volatile of all things.
    CPL 11.507 24 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are secondary...
    FRep 11.513 8 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power, but the infinite applicability of these things...
    FRep 11.517 7 The lodging the power in the people...has the effect of holding things closer to common sense;...
    FRep 11.525 15 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were wrong;...
    FRep 11.541 2 We want a state of things in which crime will not pay;...
    FRep 11.541 3 We want...a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
    NHI 12.2 4 Power that by obedience grows,/ Knowledge that its source not knows,/ Wave which severs whom it bears/ From the things which he compares./
    PLT 12.6 24 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
    PLT 12.7 26 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose.
    PLT 12.10 11 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be done,-the resisting this conspiracy of men and material things...
    PLT 12.20 7 Not only man puts things in a row, but things below in a row.
    PLT 12.20 8 Not only man puts things in a row, but things below in a row.
    PLT 12.29 26 Every man is a new method and distributes things anew.
    PLT 12.31 20 [A man's aptitude] is...an organic sympathy with the whole frame of things.
    PLT 12.33 17 The healthy mind...sees things in place...
    PLT 12.40 10 The philosopher knows only laws. That is, he considers a purely mental fact, part of the soul itself. We say with Kenelm Digby, All things that she knoweth are herself, and she is all that she knoweth.
    PLT 12.41 2 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held...because we have perceived it is a fact in the nature of things...is of inestimable value.
    PLT 12.43 21 Genius is not a lazy angel contemplating itself and things.
    PLT 12.44 21 ...the fact of intellectual perception severs once for all the man from the things with which he converses.
    PLT 12.44 26 If we converse with low things...we are not compromised.
    PLT 12.45 2 ...if [we converse] with high things...the interval becomes a gulf and we cannot enter into the highest good.
    PLT 12.46 5 Wishing is castle-building; the dreaming about things agreeable to the senses, but to which we have no right.
    PLT 12.47 25 We like people who can do things.
    PLT 12.51 16 ...in learning one thing well you learn all things.
    PLT 12.55 25 The right partisan is a heady man, who, because he does not see many things, sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration;...
    II 12.74 22 ...the ancient Proclus seems to signify his sense of the same fact, by saying, The parts in us are more the property of wholes, and of things above us, than they are our property.
    II 12.76 24 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    II 12.79 19 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance. But the moment they attempt to say these things by memory, charlatanism begins.
    II 12.83 6 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world;...
    II 12.87 19 If immortality, in the sense in which you seek it, is best, you shall be immortal. If it is up to the dignity of that order of things you know, it is secure.
    II 12.89 2 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent...renew life for [a man].
    Mem 12.90 11 ...[memory] is the cohesion which keeps things from falling into a lump...
    Mem 12.100 16 ...if [Newton] was asked why things were so or so, he could find the reason on the spot.
    Mem 12.105 1 We remember those things which we love and those things which we hate.
    Mem 12.105 2 We remember those things which we love and those things which we hate.
    Mem 12.107 18 Thoreau said, Of what significance are the things you can forget.
    Mem 12.108 21 The divine is...the life that can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which it makes all things new.
    CInt 12.114 24 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed,-they reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity and admiration, things not before discoursed or written...
    CInt 12.119 9 I delight in people who can do things.
    CInt 12.129 6 Is...an insurance office, bank or bakery outside of the system and connection of things...
    CL 12.166 25 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must know what Pindar means when he says that water is the best of things...
    CL 12.167 8 ...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter... then all things fly into place...
    CW 12.174 12 In the arboretum you should have things which are of a solitary excellence...
    MAng1 12.215 3 ...all things recorded of Michael Angelo Buonarotti agree together.
    MAng1 12.218 26 ...certain minds, more closely harmonized with Nature, possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things...
    MAng1 12.232 24 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.
    Milt1 12.256 10 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...
    Milt1 12.256 12 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things...
    Milt1 12.260 26 [Milton] uttered in [English] things unheard before.
    Milt1 12.262 6 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Milt1 12.263 25 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.
    Milt1 12.264 13 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    Milt1 12.273 20 [Milton] admonished his friend not to admire military prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.
    Milt1 12.276 14 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances. We hesitate to say such things...
    Milt1 12.277 10 Milton, fired with dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of good things into others, tasked his giant imagination...for an end beyond, namely, to teach.
    Milt1 12.278 3 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    ACri 12.283 3 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things;...
    ACri 12.298 23 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with new heroes, things unvoiced before...
    ACri 12.300 9 The power of the poet is...in measuring his strength by the facility with which he makes the mood of mind give its color to things.
    ACri 12.302 12 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking... painting all things its own color.
    ACri 12.302 21 ...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our investments.
    PD 12.307 3 The tongue is prone to lose the way;/ Not so the pen, for in a letter/ We have not better things to say,/ But surely say them better./
    MLit 12.320 6 ...whilst every line of the true poet will be genuine, he is in a boundless power and freedom to say a million things.
    MLit 12.320 9 ...the reason why [the true poet] can say one thing well is because his vision extends to the sight of all things...
    MLit 12.321 21 ...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which through their eyes beholdeth again and blesseth the things which it hath made.
    MLit 12.323 11 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have...seconded [Goethe's] sturdy determination to see things for what they are.
    MLit 12.330 11 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree diminishes the transparency of things...
    WSL 12.343 1 It is vain to call [the literary spirit] a luxury, and as saints and reformers are apt to do, decry it as a species of day-dreaming. What else are sanctities, and reforms, and all other things?
    Pray 12.351 16 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that those external things which I have may be such as may best agree with a right internal disposition of mine;...
    AgMs 12.360 5 [Edmund Hosmer] had been reading the report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth, and had found good things in it;...
    EurB 12.366 4 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see...the test-objects of the microscope, and then the tongue to utter the same things in words...
    EurB 12.377 27 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women, though the greatest and fairest, are stupid things;...
    PPr 12.382 1 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters...
    PPr 12.382 4 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters, and of no modern book. Truly in these things is great reward.
    Let 12.395 18 We do a great many selfish things every day;...
    Let 12.398 17 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things...
    Trag 12.405 7 I do not know but the prevalent hue of things to the eye of leisure is melancholy.
    Trag 12.409 8 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...a power of the imagination to dislocate things orderly and cheerful and show them in startling array.
    Trag 12.410 11 [Sorrow] is superficial; for the most part fantastic, or in the appearance and not in things.
    Trag 12.411 21 A man should not commit his tranquillity to things...

Things, n. (1)

    NR 3.245 14 ...Things are, and are not, at the same time;...

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