. A poet's cabinet, being passages, mainly poetical . tate inside. A womanis happier, I think, when she has domestic success. Where Society Leads, i. SOCIETY When sad from self-satiety,Why should one shun society?—It rouses him from introspection,And routs his dreams of drear think, as pools, whose overflowNot freely off through earth can go,Will breed foul mists, that reek and riseAnd dim the earth and cloud the skies,Our thoughts, if not allowd to flowToward others freely—who can know?—With vapory whims may blear the mood,And thus deform the objects viewd,And half the light of li
. A poet's cabinet, being passages, mainly poetical . tate inside. A womanis happier, I think, when she has domestic success. Where Society Leads, i. SOCIETY When sad from self-satiety,Why should one shun society?—It rouses him from introspection,And routs his dreams of drear think, as pools, whose overflowNot freely off through earth can go,Will breed foul mists, that reek and riseAnd dim the earth and cloud the skies,Our thoughts, if not allowd to flowToward others freely—who can know?—With vapory whims may blear the mood,And thus deform the objects viewd,And half the light of life exclude. A Life in Song: Doubting, xxv. Society is like the atmosphere:Is always round us, and is all alike—All warm in sunshine and all chill in storm. Columbus, iv., i. SOCIETY AND ARTIFICIALITY Where true love is the treasure to be sought,One glimpse of nature is a better guideThan all the forms of calculating artThat ever powdered an instinctive flush,Or rouged pale hate, in any masqueradeThat men call good society. Cecil the Seer, Storms of swift and full distress May make of mind a wilderness, A flood of anguish bringing. See page 358. SELECTED QUOTATIONS 355 Ah, in our good society, (Where things that gain acceptancy Are fashions phrases, and an air Which, caught with neither thought nor care, Make wits and fools both equal there). A Life in Song: Doubting, xxvm. SOCIETY, AND FOLLOWING LEADERS .... Its natural I should want to see you fill theplace in life that I have gained for you. .... Yes, but .... Dont butt at sheep. Your father means tosay society are sheep that always follow leaders. .... Yes. .... And so, if you keep near the leaders, societywill follow you. .... The Smiths are just as good as we are. .... Yes, that is true; but are they better? .... We ought to go then with our betters?—What if all others did the same? .... Well, fortunately for the few, the othersusually are fools. The truth is others look at you injust the way you look at them
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