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We do not yet see that virtue is Height , and that a man or a company of men , plastic and permeable to principles , by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities , nations , kings , rich men , poets , who are not .
We do not yet see that virtue is Height , and that a man or a company of men , plastic and permeable to principles , by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities , nations , kings , rich men , poets , who are not .
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There is no penalty to virtue ; no penalty to wisdom ; they are proper additions of being . In a virtuous action I properly am ; in a virtuous act I add to the world ; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing and see the ...
There is no penalty to virtue ; no penalty to wisdom ; they are proper additions of being . In a virtuous action I properly am ; in a virtuous act I add to the world ; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing and see the ...
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The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue , but into the region of all the virtues . They are in the spirit which contains them all . The soul requires purity , but purity is not it ; requires justice ...
The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue , but into the region of all the virtues . They are in the spirit which contains them all . The soul requires purity , but purity is not it ; requires justice ...
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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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