 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.  Essays: First Series - Página 61por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1875
...possible of man." The air of complaint which overhangs these sentences changes to rigor in this : — This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for evermore degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
...present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...the world hates ; that the soul becomes ; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
...present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...the world hates, that the soul becomes ;- for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 páginas
...present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 páginas
...present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hales, that the soul becomes ; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900
...present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...the world hates ; that the soul becomes ; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
...present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...the world hates; that the soul becomes ; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
...present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becemes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884
...present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...the world hates ; that the soul becomes ; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | 1884
...possible of man." The air of complaint which overhangs these sentences changes to rigour in this : — This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that for evermore degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
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