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There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant ...
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant ...
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There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions , so they be each honest and natural in their hour . For of one will , the actions will be harmonious , however unlike they seem . These varieties are lost sight of at a little ...
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions , so they be each honest and natural in their hour . For of one will , the actions will be harmonious , however unlike they seem . These varieties are lost sight of at a little ...
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For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space , from light , from time , from man , but one with them , and proceeds obviously from the same source whence ...
For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space , from light , from time , from man , but one with them , and proceeds obviously from the same source whence ...
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texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and , future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , —one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , , and , in ...
texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and , future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , —one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , , and , in ...
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In the hour of vision , there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation , perceives the self - existence of Truth and Right , and calms itself with ...
In the hour of vision , there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation , perceives the self - existence of Truth and Right , and calms itself with ...
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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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