The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 66
... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present ...
... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present ...
Page 67
... present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present , above time . This ...
... present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present , above time . This ...
Page 69
... present , and what is called life and what is called death . Life only avails , not the having lived . Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state , in the shooting of the ...
... present , and what is called life and what is called death . Life only avails , not the having lived . Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state , in the shooting of the ...
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