Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, FriendshipLongmans, Green and Company, 1915 - 140 pages |
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Page xvi
... never blamed them , though he had a philosopher's interest in the wisdom he might have gathered from their talk . From the more substan- tial neighbors , upright New Englanders of the old type , he won not only respect but pleasant ...
... never blamed them , though he had a philosopher's interest in the wisdom he might have gathered from their talk . From the more substan- tial neighbors , upright New Englanders of the old type , he won not only respect but pleasant ...
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... never accept quietly the reticence of Emerson's nature , and accused him of “ al- ways seeming to be on stilts . " " It is even so , " he comments , " but having never found any remedy , I am very patient with this folly . " Hawthorne ...
... never accept quietly the reticence of Emerson's nature , and accused him of “ al- ways seeming to be on stilts . " " It is even so , " he comments , " but having never found any remedy , I am very patient with this folly . " Hawthorne ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Eunice Jeannette Cleveland. the house . The two never came into close relations , though Emerson always honored Hawthorne's noble char- acter , and looked forward to the time when they should be friends . " I thought ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Eunice Jeannette Cleveland. the house . The two never came into close relations , though Emerson always honored Hawthorne's noble char- acter , and looked forward to the time when they should be friends . " I thought ...
Page xxi
... never encouraged disciples ; it was his supreme duty to tell people what line of thought he was following in his search for wisdom , and to report as faithfully as he could the truths revealed to him , but every youth must search for ...
... never encouraged disciples ; it was his supreme duty to tell people what line of thought he was following in his search for wisdom , and to report as faithfully as he could the truths revealed to him , but every youth must search for ...
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... never upon the masses except through him . He , then , was responsible for improve- ment in society . In this whole doctrine Emerson is truly American , for his individualism received emphasis from his nationality , and formed the ...
... never upon the masses except through him . He , then , was responsible for improve- ment in society . In this whole doctrine Emerson is truly American , for his individualism received emphasis from his nationality , and formed the ...
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Page 25 - 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.
Page 51 - Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people, the habit and form of the government, he will create a house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also.
Page 31 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 29 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Page 25 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Page 26 - 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 34 - 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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Page 31 - The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
Page 30 - Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation to put all 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 I do not belong.
Page 55 - Our dependence on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect for numbers. The political parties meet in numerous conventions : the greater the concourse, and with each new uproar of announcement, The delegation from Essex ! The Democrats from New Hampshire ! The Whigs of Maine ! the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms. In like manner the reformers summon conventions, and vote and resolve in multitude.