But, though a wise man feels little pleasure from praise where he knows there is no praise-worthiness, he often feels the highest in doing what he knows to be praise-worthy, though he knows equally well that no praise is ever…

The world love to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive every thing but the plain, downright, simple honest truth—such as we see it chalked out…

In which case I promise them I will myself befriend them, and endeavour to replace them as soon as possible, in the confidence of their friends, but which I can only do when their conduct will enable me to transfer…

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The imaginations of men had been first made familiar with it in that earliest period of society, and the uniform continuance of the custom had hindered them afterwards from perceiving its enormity. Arise from your stupor, O friends, come hither…

But the very desire of motion supposes some notion or preconception of externality; and the desire to move towards the side of the agreeable, or from that of the disagreeable sensation, supposes at least some vague notion of some external…

He meant by this a power of running several words into one, dropping parts of them and retaining only the significant syllables. The more intense these principles and convictions are, the stronger the autosuggestion will be, and relatively harder to…

The only drawback in “long-range” work is that the user must wait longer before he can get his book, provided it is on the shelves. The universal use of the ordeal, involving as it did the indispensable employment of priestly…

To conclude this account with what perhaps I ought to have set out with, a definition of the character of an author. As in the case of hunger. It is like setting a rope-dancer to perform a tumbler’s tricks—the hardness…

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