ably to all. And this is the progress of every earnest mind; from the
works of man and the activity of the hands to a delight in the faculties which rule them;
from a respect to the works to a wise wonder at this mystic element of time in which he
is conditioned; and local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production
per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and the right
we have to the work, or the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to depth of
thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or, that its roots are in eternity, not in time.
Then it flows from character, that sublime health which values one moment as another,
and make us great in all conditions, and is the only definition we have of freedom and
power.
, That which befits us, imbosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and
courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. The life of man is the true romance,
which, when it is valiantly conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any
fiction. All around us, what powers are wrapped up under the coarse mattings of custom,
and all wonder prevented.
It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does
not occur to them, that it is just as wonderful, that he should see with them ; and that is
ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at the unusual,
the vrise man wonders at the usual.
Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives ?
May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and
taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past ?
EXTRACTS FROM EMERSON.
HAPPINESS.
" Love is blind, runs the phrase; nay, I would rather say, love
sees as God sees, and with infinite pardon."
Talent is power ; tact is skill. Talent is weight ; tact is mo-
mentum. Talent knows what to do ; tact knows how to do it.
Talent makes a man respectable ; tact will make him respected.
Talent is wealth ; tact is ready-money. For all the practical pur-
poses of life tact carries it against talent in proportion of ten to
one.
TACT is the lubricator of life ; it oils the machinery, it smooths away the trouble,
looks far ahead perhaps to see it, and turns things into another channel. But,
however, tact avoids the necessity of falsehood, it does not suppress the truth ; it
simply prevents references to the facts. It has a sort of self-respect which does not blazon
its affairs abroad ; it does not consider itself as using deceit when merely keeping its
own business in its own breast.
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ably to all. And this is the progress of every earnest mind; from the works of man and the activity of the hands to a delight in the faculties which rule them; from a respect to the works to a wise wonder at this mystic element of time in which he is conditioned; and local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and the right we have to the work, or the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or, that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character, that sublime health which values one moment as another, and make us great in all conditions, and is the only definition we have of freedom and power.
, That which befits us, imbosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. The life of man is the true romance, which, when it is valiantly conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. All around us, what powers are wrapped up under the coarse mattings of custom, and all wonder prevented.
It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them, that it is just as wonderful, that he should see with them ; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at the unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.
Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives ? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past ?
EXTRACTS FROM EMERSON.
HAPPINESS.
" Love is blind, runs the phrase; nay, I would rather say, love sees as God sees, and with infinite pardon."
Talent is power ; tact is skill. Talent is weight ; tact is momentum. Talent knows what to do ; tact knows how to do it. Talent makes a man respectable ; tact will make him respected. Talent is wealth ; tact is ready-money. For all the practical purposes of life tact carries it against talent in proportion of ten to one.
TACT is the lubricator of life ; it oils the machinery, it smooths away the trouble, looks far ahead perhaps to see it, and turns things into another channel. But, however, tact avoids the necessity of falsehood, it does not suppress the truth ; it simply prevents references to the facts. It has a sort of self-respect which does not blazon its affairs abroad ; it does not consider itself as using deceit when merely keeping its own business in its own breast.