 Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes...  Essays - Página 63por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
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...gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes: for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a sham, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Midwestern or not,... | |
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 | Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 páginas
...when, in exasperation with his own title, Emerson asks, 'Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance? . . . To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking....rather of that which relies, because it works and is.' "" This self-consuming gesture is like the one in "Uses of Great Men" cited earlier, in which Emerson... | |
 | Charles T. Rubin - 2000 - 282 páginas
...achieve the kind of life most in accord with our nature. The point comes out clearly in "Self-Reliance": Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. (27 1 ) Any established mode or way of life (better or worse), any culture, obscures the universal... | |
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