Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an IntrodScribner, 1926 - 376 psl. |
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... common and in its philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present one , the inaccuracy is not material ; no confusion of thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to essences unchanged by man ; space , the ...
... common and in its philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present one , the inaccuracy is not material ; no confusion of thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to essences unchanged by man ; space , the ...
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... common , in snow puddles , at twilight , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear . In the woods , too , a man ...
... common , in snow puddles , at twilight , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear . In the woods , too , a man ...
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... common life whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man ...
... common life whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man ...
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... common to them all , that perfectness and harmony , is beauty . The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms , the totality of nature ; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty " il più nell ' uno . " Nothing is ...
... common to them all , that perfectness and harmony , is beauty . The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms , the totality of nature ; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty " il più nell ' uno . " Nothing is ...
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... common sense ; what continual reproduc- tion of annoyances , inconveniences , dilemmas ; what rejoicing over us of little men ; what disputing of prices , what reckon- ings of interest , and all to form the Hand of the mind ; to ...
... common sense ; what continual reproduc- tion of annoyances , inconveniences , dilemmas ; what rejoicing over us of little men ; what disputing of prices , what reckon- ings of interest , and all to form the Hand of the mind ; to ...
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364 psl. - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
372 psl. - TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.
80 psl. - On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within ? my friend suggested, — " But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.
362 psl. - God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more ; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor ? My angel, — his name is Freedom, — Choose him to be your king ; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
97 psl. - 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.
78 psl. - ... 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. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
85 psl. - It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of today. We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.