 Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shellfish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case, because it no longer admits of its growth, and slowly forms a new house.  Essays, First Series - Page 102by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
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...make all things its own. Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,...wit, — if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit. 48. Such, also, is the natural history of calamity. The changes which break up at short intervals the... | |
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...love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue — is not tliat mine 1 His wit — if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit" (i. 53). With greater transcendental coarseness, he says on another occasion : " This one fact the... | |
 | 1842 - 740 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
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