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Genius studies the causal thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the ...
Genius studies the causal thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the ...
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But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then > a the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then > a the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
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the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of them glorifies him . See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing . These figures , he would say , these Chirons ...
the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of them glorifies him . See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing . These figures , he would say , these Chirons ...
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“ Man is his own star ; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man , Commands all light , all influence , all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows ...
“ Man is his own star ; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man , Commands all light , all influence , all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows ...
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This sculpture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . ܪ We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed 40 ESSAY II .
This sculpture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . ܪ We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed 40 ESSAY II .
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| 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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