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all things ; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the centre of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine ...
all things ; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the centre of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine ...
Page 67
But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the 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 ...
But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the 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 ...
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This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and what is called life and what is called death . Life only avails , not the having lived .
This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and what is called life and what is called death . Life only avails , not the having lived .
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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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