Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain , and the Islands , -the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own mind . We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private ...
... believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain , and the Islands , -the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own mind . We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private ...
Page 39
... believe your own thought , to be- lieve that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the ...
... believe your own thought , to be- lieve that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the ...
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... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence , then , this worship of the past ? The centuries are ...
... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence , then , this worship of the past ? The centuries are ...
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... think good days are preparing for you . Do not believe it . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . ION COMPENSATION . The wings of Time are black and SELF - RELIANCE . 79.
... think good days are preparing for you . Do not believe it . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . ION COMPENSATION . The wings of Time are black and SELF - RELIANCE . 79.
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... believe in the riches of the soul , in its proper eternity and omnipresence . We do not believe there is any force in to - day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday . We linger in the ruins of the old tent , where once we had ...
... believe in the riches of the soul , in its proper eternity and omnipresence . We do not believe there is any force in to - day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday . We linger in the ruins of the old tent , where once we had ...
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