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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... wonderful : it is by abandonment . 14 Skeptic . Pure intellect is the pure devil when you have got off all the masks of Mephistopheles . It is a painful symbol to me that the index or forefinger is always the most soiled of all the ...
... wonderful methods in him ; he is - every child a new style of man ; give him time and opportunity . Talk of Columbus and Newton ! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs . But ...
... wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes , that it does not occur to them that it is just as wonderful that he should see with them ; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise ; the latter ...