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Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the ...
Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the ...
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This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our ...
This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our ...
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It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ...
It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ...
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Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an ...
Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an ...
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brated in the dance of the fairies , which breaks off on the approach of human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world ...
brated in the dance of the fairies , which breaks off on the approach of human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world ...
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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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