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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... things , but what are the things themselves , they cannot tell . The materialist insists on facts , history , on the force of circumstances , and the animal wants of man ; the idealist on the power of Thought and Will , on inspiration ...
... things renew , germinate , and spring . Why should we im- port rags and relics into the new hour ? Nature abhors the ... thing of the soul ; nature being a thing which doth only do , but not know . " He replaced that motto with some ...
... things proceed out of this same spirit , which is dif- ferently named love , justice , temperance , in its different applications , just as the ocean receives different names on the several shores on which it washes . All things proceed ...