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... face to face ; we , through their eyes . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not ...
... face to face ; we , through their eyes . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not ...
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... face of the world changed , from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon ! The private poor man hath cities , ships , canals , bridges , built for him . He goes to the post - office , and the human race run on his errands ; to the book ...
... face of the world changed , from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon ! The private poor man hath cities , ships , canals , bridges , built for him . He goes to the post - office , and the human race run on his errands ; to the book ...
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... face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love in such ... faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and internal beau- ty , and is ...
... face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love in such ... faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and internal beau- ty , and is ...
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... face to face in a glass . “ The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial - plate of the invisible . " The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics . Thus , " the whole is greater than its part " ; reac- tion is ...
... face to face in a glass . “ The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial - plate of the invisible . " The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics . Thus , " the whole is greater than its part " ; reac- tion is ...
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... face the widow , the orphan , and the sons of genius fear and hate ; —debt , which consumes so much time , which so crip- ples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone ...
... face the widow , the orphan , and the sons of genius fear and hate ; —debt , which consumes so much time , which so crip- ples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone ...
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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