This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... long into things; that is to be wanting in sincerity no less than in wisdom. A trifling distrust of one's self is part of the one as of the other. But I confess that I was thinking of none of these things when I offered my friendly criticism. It was your reply that led to these reflections. What concerns me ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... long into things; that is to be wanting in sincerity no less than in wisdom. A trifling distrust of one's self is part of the one as of the other. But I confess that I was thinking of none of these things when I offered my friendly criticism. It was your reply that led to these reflections. What concerns me with reference to the vividness of your impressions is this: You follow all too easily the dark suggestions of life and events; before the sad and deplorable facts that confront you your sight grows troubled. A cold, dark mist enters your soul, and it seems to you that all is lost because the sun is hidden and the familiar outlines of things are changed. Confused, undone, you suffer a nameless martyrdom. The cloud above you threatens to extinguish your hope. This is all wrong, and must be remedied. Learn to control your impressions, to keep them in place. Shall all the light God has revealed to you be blotted out by an hour of eclipse? Will you give such credit to your impressions that it suffices for the last one to be dark, to destroy all the rest? Shall your soul be as the surface of water, that shows only the wake of the last ship? You should not suffer this, but aspire to something better.--You say this to me? I already suffer cruelly from this ascendancy of passing moods. Every clear-cut reality makes its impression so deep on the sensitive ground of my heing that for an hour I am conscious of nothing else. And in an hour one may commit a foolish deed, surrender to despair, neglect a duty, or give way to a weakness. There are days when I feel the world crumbling round me. As the messengers of evil followed one another before the face of Job, so unhappy experiences, erroneous opinions, events wherein the wrong triumphs, knock...
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