The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1J. R. Osgood and Company, 1875 |
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... intel- The divine bards are the friends of my virtue , of lect , of my strength . They admonish me , that the gleams which flash across my mind , are not mine , but God's ; that they had the like , and were not disobedient to the ...
... intel- The divine bards are the friends of my virtue , of lect , of my strength . They admonish me , that the gleams which flash across my mind , are not mine , but God's ; that they had the like , and were not disobedient to the ...
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... intel- lectual exertion . I know , it often , perhaps usually , happens , that where there is a fine organization apt for poetry and phi- losophy , that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts , to waste several days ...
... intel- lectual exertion . I know , it often , perhaps usually , happens , that where there is a fine organization apt for poetry and phi- losophy , that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts , to waste several days ...
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... intel- lect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface differences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For ...
... intel- lect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface differences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For ...
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... intel- lectual life , may serve for the whole distinction between great- ness and meanness . It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world ...
... intel- lectual life , may serve for the whole distinction between great- ness and meanness . It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world ...
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... intel- lects dare not yet hear God himself , unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts , on a few lives . We are like children who repeat ...
... intel- lects dare not yet hear God himself , unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts , on a few lives . We are like children who repeat ...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes Ralph Waldo Emerson Visualização integral - 1875 |
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action antinomianism appear astronomy beauty behold better character church comes conservatism conversation divine earth Emanuel Swedenborg Epaminondas eternal exist experience fact faculties faith fear feel force genius gifts give Goethe hand heart heaven Heraclitus hope hour human ical individual intel intellect labor light ligion live look man's manner marriage means mind moral Napoleon nature never noble objects Parliament of Love party pass perfect persons Phidias Pindar plant Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry present prudence reform relations religion rich Rome scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars sublime talent thee things thou thought tion to-day Transcendentalist true truth universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth Zoroaster
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Página 62 - A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
Página 8 - Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 243 - They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Página 32 - I was there ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth ; when he established the clouds above ; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep ; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Página 59 - If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Página 219 - T^HERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every JL man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought he may think ; what a saint has felt' he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand.
Página 48 - Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,— the act of thought, — is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also.
Página 459 - CHARACTER The sun set; but set not his hope: Stars rose; his faith was earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye: And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the Age of Gold again: His action won such reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the feat.
Página 242 - ... 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 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Página 8 - The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the/ horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.