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... truth , mysticism , and the development of American genius . From the last - named subject Emerson probably received the impulse which prompted him in 1837 to deliver his oration entitled " The American Scholar " before the Phi Beta ...
... truth , mysticism , and the development of American genius . From the last - named subject Emerson probably received the impulse which prompted him in 1837 to deliver his oration entitled " The American Scholar " before the Phi Beta ...
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... truth , one of the legitimate poets , Emerson , in my opinion , is not . His poetry is interesting ; it makes one think , but it is not the poetry of one of the born poets . I do not , then , place Emerson among the great poets . But I ...
... truth , one of the legitimate poets , Emerson , in my opinion , is not . His poetry is interesting ; it makes one think , but it is not the poetry of one of the born poets . I do not , then , place Emerson among the great poets . But I ...
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... truth , ― learn the amount of this influence more conveniently , - by considering their value alone . The theory of books is noble . The scholar of the first age received into him the world around ; brooded thereon ; gave it the new ...
... truth , ― learn the amount of this influence more conveniently , - by considering their value alone . The theory of books is noble . The scholar of the first age received into him the world around ; brooded thereon ; gave it the new ...
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... truth . In proportion to the complete- 5 ness of the distillation , so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be . But none is quite perfect . As no air pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum , so neither can any ...
... truth . In proportion to the complete- 5 ness of the distillation , so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be . But none is quite perfect . As no air pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum , so neither can any ...
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... truth ; and utters truth , or creates . In this action , it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favorite , but the sound estate of every man . In its essence , it is 20 progressive . The book , the college , the school of ...
... truth ; and utters truth , or creates . In this action , it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favorite , but the sound estate of every man . In its essence , it is 20 progressive . The book , the college , the school of ...
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Page 47 - 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 53 - 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 46 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.
Page 50 - 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 81 - A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
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 49 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page 52 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Page 54 - Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, 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 66 - Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.