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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Prudence What right have I to write on Prudence , whereof I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing of means and methods , not in adroit ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Prudence What right have I to write on Prudence , whereof I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing of means and methods , not in adroit ...
Page 88
... prudence , making the senses final , is the god of sots and cowards , and is the subject of all comedy . It is nature's joke , and therefore literature's . The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an ...
... prudence , making the senses final , is the god of sots and cowards , and is the subject of all comedy . It is nature's joke , and therefore literature's . The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an ...
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... Prudence concerns the present time , persons , property and existing forms . But as every fact hath its roots in the soul , and if the soul were changed would cease to be , or would become some other thing , - the proper administration ...
... Prudence concerns the present time , persons , property and existing forms . But as every fact hath its roots in the soul , and if the soul were changed would cease to be , or would become some other thing , - the proper administration ...
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