Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini, Volume 3Smith, Elder, 1891 |
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Pagina 161 - It was the tempest of Doubt, which I believe all who devote their lives to a great enterprise, yet have not dried and withered up their soul — like Robespierre — beneath some barren intellectual formula, but have retained a loving heart, are doomed — once at least — to battle through. My...
Pagina 117 - There is nothing therefore to forbid a struggle against Right : any individual may rebel against any right in another which is injurious to him ; and the sole judge left between the adversaries is Force ; and such, in fact, has frequently been the answer which societies based upon right have given to their opponents.
Pagina 170 - Each of us is bound to purify his own soul as a temple ; to free it from egotism ; to set before himself, with a religious sense of the importance of the study, the problem of his own life ; to search out what is the most striking...
Pagina 162 - I saw rising around me upon every side ; — the failure of faith in those who had solemnly bound themselves with me to pursue unshaken the path we had known at the outset to be choked with sorrows ; — the distrust I detected in those most dear to me as to the motives and intentions which sustained and urged me onward in the evidently unequal struggle.
Pagina 189 - ... unfortunately, but as units in this world, who are worthy to be called martyr souls, who in silence, piously in their daily life, understand and practise what is meant by that.
Pagina 163 - I had concentrated my whole power of attachment, prostrated my soul in deep despair. And these things were revealed to me at the very time when, assailed as I was on every side, I felt most intensely the need of comforting and retempering my spirit in communion with the fraternal souls I had deemed capable of comprehending even my silence, of divining all that I suffered in deliberately renouncing every earthly joy, and of smiling in suffering with me. Without entering into details, I will merely...
Pagina 107 - It has no essential and inevitable relation with a purpose or intent calculated to harmonise the sum of human faculties and forces. Fraternity is undoubtedly the basis of all society, the first condition of social progress, but it is not progress ; it renders it possible — it is an indispensable element of it — but it is not its definition.
Pagina 190 - Plot may be in the wind, some double-dyed treason or imminent national wreck not avoidable otherwise, then let us open letters ; not till then. To all Austrian kaisers and such like, in their time of trouble, let us answer, as our fathers from of old have answered: Not by such means is help here for you. Such means, allied to picking of pockets and viler forms of scoundrelism, are not permitted in this country for your behoof. The Right Honorable Secretary does himself detest such, and even is afraid...
Pagina 165 - Leave him alone ; he is in his element — conspiring and happy. Ah ! how little can men guess the state of mind of others, unless they regard it — and this is rarely done — by the ' light of a deep affection. " One morning I awoke to find my mind tranquil and my spirit calmed, as one who has passed through a great danger. The first...