The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1876 |
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... relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of ...
... relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of ...
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... relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him and pre- dict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the wings of an eagle in ...
... relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him and pre- dict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the wings of an eagle in ...
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... relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to inter- pose helps . It must be that when God speak- eth he should communicate , not one thing , but · - -one as much as all things ; should II SELF ...
... relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to inter- pose helps . It must be that when God speak- eth he should communicate , not one thing , but · - -one as much as all things ; should II SELF ...
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... relation to it , another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles disappear . If therefore a man claims to know and speak of God and carries you backward to ...
... relation to it , another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles disappear . If therefore a man claims to know and speak of God and carries you backward to ...
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... relations I must fill after a new and unprecedented way . I appeal from your customs . I must be myself . I can- not break myself any longer for you , or you . If you can love me for what I am , we shall be the happier . If you cannot ...
... relations I must fill after a new and unprecedented way . I appeal from your customs . I must be myself . I can- not break myself any longer for you , or you . If you can love me for what I am , we shall be the happier . If you cannot ...
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Page 407 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
Page 57 - 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 431 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 67 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day.
Page 341 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Page 270 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Page 271 - God comes to see us without bell :" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God.
Page 48 - A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.
Page 76 - ... from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
Page 64 - The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, the essence of virtue, and the essence of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.