The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 132
... never presented a practical dif- ficulty to any man , never darkened across any man's road who did not go out of his way to seek them . These are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping - coughs , and those who have not caught them ...
... never presented a practical dif- ficulty to any man , never darkened across any man's road who did not go out of his way to seek them . These are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping - coughs , and those who have not caught them ...
Page 158
... never be any doubt concerning the respective ability of human beings . Pretension may sit still , but cannot act . Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness . Pretension never wrote an Iliad , nor drove back Xerxes , nor ...
... never be any doubt concerning the respective ability of human beings . Pretension may sit still , but cannot act . Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness . Pretension never wrote an Iliad , nor drove back Xerxes , nor ...
Page 313
... never see Christianity from the catechism : -from the pas- tures , from a boat in the pond , from amidst the songs of wood - birds we possibly may . Cleansed by the elemental light and wind , steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which ...
... never see Christianity from the catechism : -from the pas- tures , from a boat in the pond , from amidst the songs of wood - birds we possibly may . Cleansed by the elemental light and wind , steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which ...
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action Amadis de Gaul appear beauty behold better Bonduca Boston character circle conversation divine doctrine earth Emerson Epaminondas essay eternal evil experience fact fear feel friendship genius George Willis Cooke give hand heart heaven Heraclitus Heroism hour human intellect John Sterling lecture less light live look man's ment mind moral nature ness never noble object Over-Soul painted pass Perceforest perfect persons Phidias Phocion Plato pleasure Plotinus Plutarch Poems poet poetry Polycrates present prudence Ralph Waldo Emerson relations religion Richard Garnett sculpture secret seems sense Shakspeare society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand sweet Synesius talent teach thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth ture universal virtue whilst whole William Ellery Channing wisdom words write Xenophon young youth