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... their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things .
... their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things .
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... is that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere ; that Unity , that Over - Soul , within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other ; that common heart of ...
... is that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere ; that Unity , that Over - Soul , within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other ; that common heart of ...
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But beyond this recognition of its own in particular passages of the individual's experience , it also reveals truth . And here we should seek to reinforce ourselves by its very presence , and to speak with a worthier , loftier strain ...
But beyond this recognition of its own in particular passages of the individual's experience , it also reveals truth . And here we should seek to reinforce ourselves by its very presence , and to speak with a worthier , loftier strain ...
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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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