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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... true teacher shall have no disciple . " I have been writing and speaking what were once called novelties , for twenty - five or thirty years , and have not now one disciple . Why ? Not that what I said was not true ; not that it has not ...
... true nectar . " This is the reason why bards love wine , mead , narcotics , coffee , tea , opium , the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco , or whatever other procurers of animal exhilaration . All men avail themselves of such means as they ...
... true . It rests on the observation of identity and diversity ; for to judge is to unite to an object the notion which belongs to it . 12 After one of his intense conversations with Mar- garet Fuller , Emerson's tangled emotions emerge ...