The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes, Volume 6Riverside Press, 1904 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Æsir Æsop animal beauty believe better Boston called character charm Concord culture dæmon divine Emerson England essay eternal eyes F. B. Sanborn face faith farm Fate force friends genius give Goethe grace hand heart heaven heroes Honest Man's Fortune horse human illusion intellect Journal Julius Cæsar king limp band live look man's mankind manners Margaret Fuller means mind moral motto nature never Over-Soul persons plant Plato Plutarch Poems poet politics poor quadruped Quatrain race Ralph Waldo Emerson religion rich royal sails rule secret sense society solitude soul spirit talent things thou thought tion town truth ture universe verse virtue Vishnu Purana wealth whilst wise wish wrote Yoganidra youth
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Página 404 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Página 402 - As though to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And...
Página 409 - But, laying hands on another, To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust. Trump of their rescue, sound ! Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim.
Página 400 - We -lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Página 394 - The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. He cannot be a naturalist, until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit. Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other. In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
Página 241 - There will be a new church founded on moral science ; at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematics of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shawms, or psaltery, or sackbut ; but it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters ; science for symbol and illustration ; it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
Página 215 - Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Página 396 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Página 388 - Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round ; In vain produced, all rays return ; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
Página 273 - HE who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.