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... of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages explained by the hours . Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation .
... of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages explained by the hours . Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation .
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Do not think the youth has no force , because he cannot speak to you Hark ! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold , then , he will know how ...
Do not think the youth has no force , because he cannot speak to you Hark ! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold , then , he will know how ...
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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is , that it scatters your force . It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible - society ...
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is , that it scatters your force . It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible - society ...
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But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added , when the ignorant and the poor are aroused , when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow , it needs the habit of ...
But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added , when the ignorant and the poor are aroused , when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow , it needs the habit of ...
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The force of character , is cumulative . All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of ...
The force of character , is cumulative . All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of ...
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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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