...circumstances, 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...fact 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...

...("Travel is a fool's paradise" [134]) and, for similar reasons, prayer ("Prayer looks abroad" Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes, (1 29) Three Reat Questions of Travel \ 177 And yet so many fled, so many lost to the magnetic spires...

...operation into reverse and all but retracts the very idea: Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim . . . Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power...

...dogmas, were in constant flux and the absolute existed only in the intrinsic function of choice. "Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state."35 The homely illustration of his meaning would be to imagine the voter in the voting booth,...

...asserts, "ceases in the instant of repose." But that cessation is, dialectically, preparation, since power "resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of a gulf, in the darting to an aim" (E&L 271). Thus, repose and action (shooting, darting) are not opposed...

...calms itself with knowing that all things go well. . . . Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. (CW 2:39—40) The loss Emerson associates with repose underscores the restlessness he sees as a necessary...

...stated in the essay that made such a strong impression on O'Hara as a young man, "Self-Reliance": "Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim" (EL, 271). Here O'Hara directly follows Emerson in equating power with movement, with the self's ability...

...distance by which to look askance and create anew. "Power," indeed, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson, "resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, the darting to an aim"; and it "ceases in the instant of repose" (1981:152). In displacement lies a...

...makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action . . . Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 ~ Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone...

...him to have noticed. In "Self-Reliance" he underscored "Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose: it resides in the...from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf."4 In Emerson's "Spiritual Laws" James marked and carefully indexed under "man a selective principle"...