The Art of Helping People Out of Trouble

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Houghton Mifflin, 1924 - 231페이지

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117 페이지 - What, then, is our neighbor? Thou hast regarded his thought, his feeling, as somehow different from thine. Thou hast said, 'A pain in him is not like a pain in me, but something far easier to bear.
31 페이지 - O Khan, worship my god. He is so wise that he made all things!" Moollah Number Two said, " O Khan, worship my god. He is so wise that he makes all things make themselves!
101 페이지 - hath sailed about the world of his own heart, sounded each creek, surveyed each corner, but that still there remains therein much ' terra incognita
37 페이지 - When you meet with a fact opposed to a prevailing theory, you should adhere to the fact and abandon the theory, even when the latter is supported by great authorities and generally adopted.
71 페이지 - I remember a man,' writes Mrs. Piozzi (Synonomy, i. 2l7), 'much delighted in by the upper ranks of society, who upon a trifling embarrassment in his affairs hanged himself behind the stable door, to the astonishment of all who knew him as the liveliest companion and most agreeable converser breathing. "What upon earth," said one at our house, "could have made — [Fitzherbert] hang himself?
199 페이지 - O come, mah breddren, won' you drap yuh load, An' ride ter Hebben up de Glory Road? SCUDDER MIDDLETON 1888— *A Woman SHE had an understanding with the years; For always in her eyes there was a light As though she kept a secret none might guess — Some confidence that Time had made her heart. So calmly did she bear the weight of pain, With such serenity accept the joy, It seemed she had a mother love for life, And all the days were children at her breast.
xi 페이지 - My cook wears a smiling, healthy, rather pleasing face. He is a goodlooking young man. Whenever I used to think of him I thought of the smile, I saw a mask before me merry as one of those little masks of Oho-kuminushi-no-kami they sell at Mionoseki. One day I looked through a little hole in the shoji, and saw him alone. The face was not the same face. It was thin and drawn and showed...
117 페이지 - He seems to thee a little less living than thou; his life is dim, it is cold, it is a pale fire beside thy own burning desires. ... So, dimly and by instinct hast thou lived with thy neighbor, and hast known him not, being blind. Thou hast made [of him] a thing, no Self at all. Have done with this illusion, and simply try to learn the truth. Pain is pain, joy is joy, everywhere, even as in thee, In all the songs of the forest birds; in all the cries of the wounded and dying, struggling in the captor's...
54 페이지 - So it is when men try to get hold of the secret of your life. No friendship, no kindliness, can make you show it to them unless they evidently really feel as you feel that it is a serious and sacred thing. There must be something like reverence or awe about the way that they approach you. It is the way in which children shut themselves up before their elders because they know their elders have no such sense as they have of the importance of their childish thoughts and feelings.
54 페이지 - ... to men, we can see something of what is necessary before one can read another's secret. Who is it that can really get at the motive, the genius of your life ? What must his qualifications be ? It is not mere curiosity, — we know how that shuts up the nature which it tries to read. It is not mere awkward good-will; that, too, crushes the flower which it tries to examine. What is it ? It must have certain elements in it which we all know. And the first, the most fundamental, the most necessary...

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