Emerson, Volume 1A.L. Humphreys, 1899 |
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... moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again ...
... moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again ...
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... the superstition of his times , he repeats step for step the part of old reformers , and in the search after truth finds like them new perils to virtue . He * learns again what moral vigour is needed to supply the HISTORY 31.
... the superstition of his times , he repeats step for step the part of old reformers , and in the search after truth finds like them new perils to virtue . He * learns again what moral vigour is needed to supply the HISTORY 31.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. learns again what moral vigour is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a refor- mation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. learns again what moral vigour is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a refor- mation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day ...
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... I hold our actual knowledge very cheap . Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? HISTORY 43.
... I hold our actual knowledge very cheap . Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? HISTORY 43.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Caucasian man , -perhaps older , — these creatures have kept their counsel beside him , and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Caucasian man , -perhaps older , — these creatures have kept their counsel beside him , and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one ...
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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...