He would trace our discontent ruthlessly to its sources and hold up to our eyes the strange compound of sorrow and fatigue, impatience and disappointment, aspiration and helplessness which makes us what we are.
It cannot be that there is always to be this disproportion between aspiration and performance, between willing and doing.
Those who are far from righteousness are those who are not only sinful in act, but do not desire to be otherwise, having no approximation or drawing towards a nobler life, by aspiration or effort.
The aspiration of woman, whether Greek courtesan, French worldling, or English factory inspector, has always been toward equality with man, perhaps toward mastery.
It may be defined as an aspiration toward material advantage, absolute truth, or achievement, combined with a capacity for taking steps toward successful achievement or attaining truth.
There may be no norm, either in Christian marriage, polygamy, Meredithian marriage leases; there may be a norm only in the human aspiration to utility and to happiness.
It is mainly a name for a particular mood of fine spiritual exaltation; the expression of a state of indefinite aspiration and supreme feeling for lofty things.
Mr. Engelman, short and fat, devoted to the office during the hours of business, had never read a book in his life, and had no aspirationbeyond the limits of his garden and his pipe.
The Professor's last scientific aspirationhad not been fulfilled.
He delivered this aspiration with an emphatic stamp of his foot.
No river in all the world is so worshiped, and to die upon its sacred banks and to have one's body burned and his ashes borne away into oblivion upon its tawny current is the highest aspiration of hundreds of millions of people.
As I have already told you, it is the highest and holiest aspiration of a pious Hindu to end his days within an area encircled by what is known as the Panch-Kos Road, which is fifty miles in length and bounds the City of Benares.
But there was one oddity, in the way of an ex voto, which pleased me hugely: a faithful model of a canal boat, swung from the vault, with a written aspiration that God should conduct the Saint Nicolas of Creil to a good haven.
But different men think differently; and this revolutionary aspiration brought down the priest with all the terrors of the law.
The first to give prominent utterance to the new aspiration was the Archduke John, who, at a banquet in Cologne, proposed a toast which he afterwards to some extent tried to explain away, but which was long remembered by the Germans.
Some day I may try to explain what I mean by this sharp distinction between the making of books, or even the love of books, and the genuine aspiration of literature.
In you, spirituality is a sort of cruel aspiration toward personal perfection.
I merely love it, but you are like it in the cold, ruthless, upward aspiration of your soul.
I caught the finer aspiration of love, like one who lays down his life and finds it again in nobler forms.
Aspiration is the cure for being “at ease in Zion.
In the same way the Platonic philosophy assumes for its foundation an enthusiastic aspiration after divine truth and a higher knowledge of it.
And in the same manner the spirit striving with most ardent aspiration after the divine, requires nothing but such an animating contact with the loving soul, in order to attain fully and effectually to its desired end.
It is the mark of really great literature when both thesis and antithesis, the aspiration after the ideal and the critique of actual existence, exhibit an equality of scale.
Her Best, her All;' those had been words of devotional aspiration before, they were realities at last.
Everywhere he sees evidence of aspiration and upward effort.
In this spirit of aspiration checked by concentration the Artist will surely find what is after his own heart.
The gravitation to a centre--the necessity for concentration--does not suppress and crush the aspiration of Nature; it only serves to compel the aspiration to refine and perfect itself.
We inferred, rather, from our observations of her in the forest that she was actuated by an aspiration towards what we ourselves hold to be of most worth and value.
That he would completely sympathize with the Washington aspiration for disarmament was to be expected.
A loftier aspiration than for excellence in art there cannot be," said Sybil, gravely.
Until to-day, my one soleaspiration in life was to become an artist-painter!
Those passages of almost intolerable aspiration were underlaid with dissonant harmonies, as if hell itself had poured all its allurements into tone, to engulf the theme that was struggling to soar upward.
Indeed, in his old countenance there was a look of defeat as dismal as though the ruin of that young man's hopes had involved one more precious aspiration of his own.
They have no aspiration even to be free," "they are content to wallow in the slough of despond.
This visionary presence wakes aspiration to new effort and touches the intellect with passion; beleaguered thought sallies out with new strength, and the frontiers of darkness recede before it.
I felt Aspiration surging in me and speeding up the action of my heart.
On the contrary, a growingaspiration spread among the Cossacks for maintaining their internal organisation and for the union of all the Cossack Armies.
He had realized the dream of his own life and the aspiration of his father, the overseer, and had become one of the wealthiest men in the State.
Hesden's ideas were made broader and fuller; her heart was reinvigorated; and both returned to their Southern home full of hope and aspiration for its future.
Our admiration is an index of our aspiration, and our aspiration is a prophecy of our attainment.
The greatest source of quarrels, feuds, wars, and general calamities among the Irish people, was the insane aspiration among the inferior members of a chieftain's family after supreme power.
It has always struck us as strange that sensible men, acquainted with history, could maintain that anaspiration after freedom and a higher civilization gave to Germany and England a leaning toward Protestantism.
