Emerson, Volume 1A.L. Humphreys, 1899 |
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Page 74
... present , and what is called life and what is called death . 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 ...
... present , and what is called life and what is called death . 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 ...
Page 75
... present , there will be power not confident but agent . To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking . Speak rather of that which relies , because it works and is . Who has more obedience than I masters me , though he should ...
... present , there will be power not confident but agent . To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking . Speak rather of that which relies , because it works and is . Who has more obedience than I masters me , though he should ...
Page 81
... present aspects of what is called by distinction , society , he will see the need of these ethics . The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out , and we are become timorous , desponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid ...
... present aspects of what is called by distinction , society , he will see the need of these ethics . The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out , and we are become timorous , desponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid ...
Page 90
... present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's culti- vation ; but of the adopted talent of another , you have only an extemporaneous half pos- session . That which each can do best , none but his Maker can teach him ...
... present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's culti- vation ; but of the adopted talent of another , you have only an extemporaneous half pos- session . That which each can do best , none but his Maker can teach him ...
Page 99
... might be shown men a ray of divinity , the present action of the soul of this world , clean from all vestige of tradition , and so the heart of man might be bathed by an 99 inundation of eternal love , conversing with that which he.
... might be shown men a ray of divinity , the present action of the soul of this world , clean from all vestige of tradition , and so the heart of man might be bathed by an 99 inundation of eternal love , conversing with that which he.
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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...