The Dietetics of the SoulC.S. Francis & Company, 1854 - 214页 |
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第9页 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
第114页 - An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof.
第59页 - All nature is but an echo of the mind ; and from her we learn the highest of all laws — that the real springs from the ideal ; that the ideal by degrees remodels the world.
第47页 - IMAGINATION is that power of the mind by which it forms pictures or images within itself. Thought is but a shapeless, lifeless entity, until Imagination moulds it into form. We cannot bring what we know out into life until Imagination presents it to the Affections as a possible...
第119页 - ... understand how much they are to be preferred to the ignorant, who act from mere appetite or passion. The ignorant man, indeed, besides being agitated in many and various ways by external causes, and never tasting true peace of mind, lives in a state of unconsciousness of himself, of God, and of all things, and only ceases to suffer when he ceases to be; the wise man, on the contrary, in so far as he is truly to be so considered, scarcely knows what mental perturbation means ; but conscious of...
第33页 - The greater the power of thought in any individual, the greater is his power of spontaneous action ; and the greater the latter the more completely will he live and be. A thousand influences lie in wait to ensnare mortal man. The whole world is an influence. But the strongest of all is individual character. Character makes the man ; for as all beings in nature are merely manifestations of force, man can boast of nothing as his own except the energy which he displays. If unable to arouse this energy,...
第19页 - Dietetics of the Soul" I would comprehend a knowledge of those means by which the soul is preserved in a state of health.
第52页 - How profound are the sufferings of those unhappy persons who allow their imaginations to become fixed upon some disease which threatens them, or from which they even imagine they already suffer 1 Sooner or later it is sure to attack them.
第33页 - Self-activity is the condition of self-preservation ; mental development is the condition of self-activity. The greater the power of thought in any individual, the greater is his spontaneous action ; and the greater the spontaneous action, the more completely will he live and be. A thousand influences lie in wait to ensnare mortal man. The whole world is an influence. But the strongest of all is individual character. Character makes the man. Man can boast of nothing as his own, except the energy...
第43页 - What, then, is beauty, but the spirit glorifying its earthly tabernacle ; and what is health but the beauty of its various functions?