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He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . ... Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ?
He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . ... Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ?
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Omnipresence is a higher fact . Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart , but , rightly considered , these things proceed from the eternal generation of the soul .
Omnipresence is a higher fact . Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart , but , rightly considered , these things proceed from the eternal generation of the soul .
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Intellect separates the fact considered , from you , from all local and personal reference , , and discerns it as if it existed for its own sake . Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists .
Intellect separates the fact considered , from you , from all local and personal reference , , and discerns it as if it existed for its own sake . Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists .
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| Title | The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series Volume 2 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Contributor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Aug 2010 |
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