The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Fields, Osgood & Company, 1870 |
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... equal greatness . Will- ingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet , and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child . Only let his thoughts be of equal scope , and the frame will suit ...
... equal greatness . Will- ingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet , and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child . Only let his thoughts be of equal scope , and the frame will suit ...
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... equal to action " ; " the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest , the difference of weight being compensated by time " ; and many the like propositions , which have an ethical as well as physical sense . These propositions ...
... equal to action " ; " the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest , the difference of weight being compensated by time " ; and many the like propositions , which have an ethical as well as physical sense . These propositions ...
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... equal right in the soul , has come to be a paramount motive for going thither . My friends , in these two errors , I think , I find the causes of a decaying church and a wasting unbelief . And what greater calamity can fall upon a ...
... equal right in the soul , has come to be a paramount motive for going thither . My friends , in these two errors , I think , I find the causes of a decaying church and a wasting unbelief . And what greater calamity can fall upon a ...
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... equal greatness of mind . He cannot know them until he has beheld with awe the infini- tude and impersonality of the intellectual power . When he has seen , that it is not his , nor any man's , but that it is the soul which made the ...
... equal greatness of mind . He cannot know them until he has beheld with awe the infini- tude and impersonality of the intellectual power . When he has seen , that it is not his , nor any man's , but that it is the soul which made the ...
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... equal issues . Nothing is more simple than greatness ; indeed , to be simple is to be great . The vision of genius comes by renouncing the too officious activity of the understanding , and giving leave and amplest privilege to the ...
... equal issues . Nothing is more simple than greatness ; indeed , to be simple is to be great . The vision of genius comes by renouncing the too officious activity of the understanding , and giving leave and amplest privilege to the ...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol ..., Volume 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Visualização integral - 1870 |
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Página 45 - into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce,
Página 61 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience,— patience
Página 397 - truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose
Página 241 - thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought,
Página 241 - conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil
Página 40 - kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation. It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. What is a day *? What is a year
Página 354 - And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible, and affirms itself no mortal, but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being. THE OVER-SOUL. " But souls that of his own good life partake, He loves as his own self; dear as his
Página 27 - woman, house and trade. In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul
Página 243 - everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one' of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Página 30 - And^ as the morning steals upon the night, The charm dissolves apace, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. Begins to swell : and the approaching tide