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Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions .
Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions .
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Man is the broken giant , and , in all his weakness , both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it were , clap wings to solid nature ...
Man is the broken giant , and , in all his weakness , both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it were , clap wings to solid nature ...
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... feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurping wilfulness , grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation .
... feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurping wilfulness , grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation .
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That which they hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought , if said in conversation , would probably be questioned in silence . If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws , he is answered by a silence ...
That which they hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought , if said in conversation , would probably be questioned in silence . If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws , he is answered by a silence ...
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The human soul is true to these facts in the painting of fable , of history , of law , of proverbs , of conversation . It finds a tongue in literature Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to ...
The human soul is true to these facts in the painting of fable , of history , of law , of proverbs , of conversation . It finds a tongue in literature Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Essays, First Series |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Feb 2019 |
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