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Excerpt from Things Learned by Living
They may, in that case, as well be added to those dreamy reminiscences and speculative visions which furnish the familiar occupants of the spiri tual and secluded household of a single man. It is enough to have lived by means of them, though the record of life, like the impressions of most lives, be left under the lock and key of actual events, and miss that reflection in words we so often prize more highly than the thing itself. If, however, any principle of philosophy, any law of action, shall have gained clear impulse by my efforts, then these acquisitions of experience, these lessons in the school of life, dropping their purely personal significance, may enter on a somewhat wider service than that which they have already accomplished. Such a sketch may aid those ih terested in it in a more deft and pleasurable hand ling of their own powers, and, like a working plan in architecture, yield all the more to the mind be1 cause they yield so little to the eye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
