A Year with Emerson: A DaybookD.R. Godine, 2003 - 231 psl. Arranged for daily inspiration, wisdom from one of America's great visionary and philosophical minds. "A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us." A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days. Known throughout the world for his cogent, epigrammatic writing, admired as the "George Washington of American Literature," his work is even more enriching in bigger doses. Daily almanac entries present the heart of Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas and philosophy. Some were written on the very day in which they appear in the book, some are speculations and musings of the season and the natural world, but all are unfailingly wise, still relevant to our modern times. Emerson's mind ranged across the universe even as he traveled the length and breadth of the United States and Europe. With Emerson as a companion and guide, we meet the ideas and personalities he championed and encountered, from Lincoln to John Muir, from Carlyle to Montaigne, and, of course, the close New England circle of Hawthorne, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and the Alcotts. With company such as this, and the scope of Emerson's vision, you're sure to encounter rich food for thought every day of the year. |
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... higher love . No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to - morrow in the light of new thoughts . People wish to be settled ; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them . 26 Emerson's wistful observation of his ...
... higher than he ; and this one of the next higher ; & so on , & up , in an ascending gradation ; so that , however slowly , the best opinion is always becoming known as such . I can easily believe you have had a rude winter of it , on ...
... higher and higher forms . All the facts of the animal economy , sex , nutriment , ges- tation , birth , growth , are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man , to suffer there a change and reappear a new and higher form ...