The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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... Action ? ' Tis a trick of the senses , - no more . We know that the ancestor of every action is a thought . The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge , - some Gentoo diet , or Quaker coat , or ...
... Action ? ' Tis a trick of the senses , - no more . We know that the ancestor of every action is a thought . The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge , - some Gentoo diet , or Quaker coat , or ...
Page 251
... action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity ; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good . But it finds its own success at last , and then the prudent also extol.1 Self - trust is the essence of ...
... action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity ; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good . But it finds its own success at last , and then the prudent also extol.1 Self - trust is the essence of ...
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... action or con- struction . Gladly would I unfold in calm de- grees a natural history of the intellect , but what man has yet been able to mark the steps and boundaries of that transparent essence ? The first questions are always to be ...
... action or con- struction . Gladly would I unfold in calm de- grees a natural history of the intellect , but what man has yet been able to mark the steps and boundaries of that transparent essence ? The first questions are always to be ...
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