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Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato , and Milton is , that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to detect ...
Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato , and Milton is , that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to detect ...
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And we are now men , and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but guides , redeemers , and benefactors , obeying ...
And we are now men , and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but guides , redeemers , and benefactors , obeying ...
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And now at last the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off remembering of the intuition . That thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this .
And now at last the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off remembering of the intuition . That thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this .
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Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good . But prayer as a means to effect a private end ...
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good . But prayer as a means to effect a private end ...
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which are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the elemental thought of duty , and man's relation to the Highest . Such is Calvinism , Quakerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every ...
which are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the elemental thought of duty , and man's relation to the Highest . Such is Calvinism , Quakerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every ...
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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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