Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any... Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion - Page 65by Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856Full view - About this book
| Theology - 1868 - 802 pages
...exercise of its functions, and you strike a blow .at the general welfare. " Every man," says Thoreau, " is the builder of a temple called his •body, to...our material is our own flesh and blood and bones." Let us .act in harmony with all law, that the work may be an honor to the artist, and that the temple... | |
| 1872 - 738 pages
...spirit that inspires it. The sourest temper must sweeten in the atmosphere of continuous good humor." "WE are all sculptors and painters, and our material...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them." " REAL merit of any kind cannot be long concealed ; it will be discovered, and nothing can deprecate... | |
| Olive Logan - Home - 1872 - 314 pages
...grown into ugliness for her. Thoreau rendered " Handsome is that handsome does " poetically ; he said, "We are all sculptors and painters, and our material...nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, and meanness or sensuality to imbrute them." VIII. CLARA VERE DE VERE goes to a ball to-night. Her... | |
| Olive Logan - History - 1872 - 298 pages
...grown into ugliness for her. Thoreau rendered " Handsome is that handsome does " poetically ; he said, "We are all sculptors and painters, and our material...nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, and meanness or sensuality to imbrute them." VIII. CLARA VERE DE VERE goes to a ball to-night. Her... | |
| 1872 - 612 pages
...true to God and for God; for it is sincerity and not success which is the sweet savour before God. WE are all sculptors and painters, and our material...is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness of nature or of grace begins at once to rufine a man's features— any meanness or sensuality to imbrute... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1880 - 706 pages
...friend — ' " no beer ! " ' \\'e am all sculptors and painters ; our material is our own flesh ami blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness ur sensuality to imbnite them. The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, an.) to-morrow... | |
| Robert Kempt - 1881 - 318 pages
...them, in the same way as widows of deceased members have done." We are all painters and sculptors ; our material is our own flesh and blood and bones....features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. APPENDIX. THE subjoined list of past Royal Academicians, from the foundation of the Academy in 1768,... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 280 pages
...and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles. Every man is the builder of a called his body, to the god he worships, after a style...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. John Farmer sat at his door one September evening, after a hard day's work, his mind still running... | |
| Congregational church-aid and home missionary society - 1882 - 308 pages
...in a short time, the church itself. Every pound so kept is a dead loss, spiritually and financially. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh, blood, and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features ; any meanness or sensuality,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1884 - 346 pages
...—Hawthorne. The whole period of youth is one essentially of formation, edification, instruction.—Ruskin. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, — any meanness or sensuality to imbnite them.—Thoreau. Ariosto tells a pretty story of a fairy, who, by some mysterious law of her... | |
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