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I do not wish to expiate , but to live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than that it should be glittering and unsteady .
I do not wish to expiate , but to live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than that it should be glittering and unsteady .
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One class live to the utility of the symbol , esteeming health and wealth a final good . Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol , as the poet and artist and the naturalist and ...
One class live to the utility of the symbol , esteeming health and wealth a final good . Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol , as the poet and artist and the naturalist and ...
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Thou dost not , Martius , And , therefore , not what ' t is to live ; to die Is to begin to live . It is to end An old , stale , weary work and to commence A newer and a better . ' Tis to leave Deceitful knaves for the society Of gods ...
Thou dost not , Martius , And , therefore , not what ' t is to live ; to die Is to begin to live . It is to end An old , stale , weary work and to commence A newer and a better . ' Tis to leave Deceitful knaves for the society Of gods ...
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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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