Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 - 290 pages |
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... whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower ...
... whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower ...
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... whilst subject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the 30 HISTORY .
... whilst subject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the 30 HISTORY .
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very seldom ? ” ― The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature , in all fable as well as in all history . He ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very seldom ? ” ― The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature , in all fable as well as in all history . He ...
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... whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is ...
... whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is ...
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... whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation is to be made to these last here- after , by giving them the like gratifications another day , bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the ...
... whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation is to be made to these last here- after , by giving them the like gratifications another day , bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the ...
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Page 215 - ... of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
Page 214 - ... that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other...
Page 282 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Page 58 - 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 269 - God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. 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 ho shuts the door of truth.
Page 216 - 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 96 - Always some damning circumstance transpires. The laws and substances of nature, water, snow, wind, gravitation, become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns...
Page 58 - ... notion. They fancy that I choose to see this or that thing. But perception is not whimsical, but fatal. If I see a trait, my children will see it after me, and in course of time all mankind, — although it may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun.' The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
Page 59 - But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
Page 72 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.