Emerson, Volume 1A.L. Humphreys, 1899 |
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... conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nature , interprets the riddle of Orpheus . The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes ...
... conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nature , interprets the riddle of Orpheus . The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes ...
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... conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilful- ness , grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation . For nonconformity the world whips ...
... conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilful- ness , grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation . For nonconformity the world whips ...
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... - strate . For men are wiser than they know . That which they hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought , if said in conversation , would probably be ques- tioned in silence . If a man dogmatise in a 102 EMERSON.
... - strate . For men are wiser than they know . That which they hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought , if said in conversation , would probably be ques- tioned in silence . If a man dogmatise in a 102 EMERSON.
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... conversation . It finds a tongue in literature unawares . Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they involuntarily made amends to reason , by 114 EMERSON.
... conversation . It finds a tongue in literature unawares . Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they involuntarily made amends to reason , by 114 EMERSON.
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... conversation , that can enchant her graceful lord ? He shall have his own society . We can love nothing but nature . The most wonderful talents , the most meritorious exertions , really avail very little with us ; but nearness or ...
... conversation , that can enchant her graceful lord ? He shall have his own society . We can love nothing but nature . The most wonderful talents , the most meritorious exertions , really avail very little with us ; but nearness or ...
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Page 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 49 - Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo. and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Page 207 - There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named. One is Truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Page 79 - As our religion, our education, our art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken.
Page 274 - The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other...
Page 41 - If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition, and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, 'Go love thy infant; love thy woodchopper: be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.
Page 42 - Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines. I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me.
Page 35 - 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 - A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me. I will stand here for humanity, and though I would make it kind, I would make it true. Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times...