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... poor , learned and unlearned , sorrowed alike at his death mansions and cottages were draped with black . Never , save when a man is greatly beloved , do the houses of the poor show signs of mourning . - Emerson's place in the ...
... poor , learned and unlearned , sorrowed alike at his death mansions and cottages were draped with black . Never , save when a man is greatly beloved , do the houses of the poor show signs of mourning . - Emerson's place in the ...
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... poor and despised ; and that a com- pensation is to be made to these last hereafter , by giving them the like gratifications another day , bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the compensation intended ; for ...
... poor and despised ; and that a com- pensation is to be made to these last hereafter , by giving them the like gratifications another day , bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the compensation intended ; for ...
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... poor . The vulgar proverb , " I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin , " is sound philosophy . 29. All infractions of love and equity in our social rela- tions are speedily punished . They are punished by fear . Whilst I ...
... poor . The vulgar proverb , " I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin , " is sound philosophy . 29. All infractions of love and equity in our social rela- tions are speedily punished . They are punished by fear . Whilst I ...
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... his study but ability to pass examinations , what does he lose ? If you pay a man for good work and he gives you poor , is there any way by which you may gain C ing . The thief steals from himself . The swindler COMPENSATION . 17.
... his study but ability to pass examinations , what does he lose ? If you pay a man for good work and he gives you poor , is there any way by which you may gain C ing . The thief steals from himself . The swindler COMPENSATION . 17.
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... poor men in good situations . Are they my poor ? I tell thee , thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent , I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom * so severe on the " angry bigot ...
... poor men in good situations . Are they my poor ? I tell thee , thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent , I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom * so severe on the " angry bigot ...
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Page 20 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Page 73 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die,...
Page 76 - IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Page 12 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 11 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that 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.
Page 77 - The delicate shells lay on the shore; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Page 26 - ... centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, -means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now. and absorbs past and future into the present hour.
Page 83 - Twas one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow, The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm; Or south, it still is clear; Or east, it smells like a clover-farm; Or west, no thunder fear.
Page 19 - Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
Page 77 - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, they sang to my eye.