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Page 86
POLARITY , or action and reaction , we meet in every part of nature ; in darkness and light ; in heat and cold ; in the ebb and flow of waters ; in male and female ; in the inspiration and expiration of plants ; and animals ; in the ...
POLARITY , or action and reaction , we meet in every part of nature ; in darkness and light ; in heat and cold ; in the ebb and flow of waters ; in male and female ; in the inspiration and expiration of plants ; and animals ; in the ...
Page 87
There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea , day and night , man and woman , in a single needle of the pine , in a kernel of corn , in each individual of every animal tribe . The reaction , so grand in the elements ...
There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea , day and night , man and woman , in a single needle of the pine , in a kernel of corn , in each individual of every animal tribe . The reaction , so grand in the elements ...
Page 108
Under all this running sea of circumstance , whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance , lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being . Essence , or God , is not a relation , or a part , but the whole . Being is the vast affirmative ...
Under all this running sea of circumstance , whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance , lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being . Essence , or God , is not a relation , or a part , but the whole . Being is the vast affirmative ...
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... his form , his - dress , books , and instruments , – fancy enhances . Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth . Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love .
... his form , his - dress , books , and instruments , – fancy enhances . Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth . Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love .
Page 207
One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world . Let a man keep the law , -- any law , - and his way will be strown with satisfactions .
One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world . Let a man keep the law , -- any law , - and his way will be strown with satisfactions .
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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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