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... Waldo Emerson. 199 221 241 • 271 • 293 315 HISTORY . There is no great and no small To. ESSAY VII . PRUDENCE ESSAY VIII . HEROISM ESSAY IX . THE OVER - SOUL CIRCLES INTELLECT • ART ESSAY X. ESSAY XI . ESSAY XII . vi CONTENTS .
... Waldo Emerson. 199 221 241 • 271 • 293 315 HISTORY . There is no great and no small To. ESSAY VII . PRUDENCE ESSAY VIII . HEROISM ESSAY IX . THE OVER - SOUL CIRCLES INTELLECT • ART ESSAY X. ESSAY XI . ESSAY XII . vi CONTENTS .
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... intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface dif- ferences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are ' friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For ...
... intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface dif- ferences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are ' friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For ...
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... intellect- ual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind , through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the ele- ments of ...
... intellect- ual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind , through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the ele- ments of ...
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... intellects dare not yet hear God himself , unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts , on a few lives . We are like children who repeat by ...
... intellects dare not yet hear God himself , unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts , on a few lives . We are like children who repeat by ...
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... intellect . They say with those foolish Israelites , ' Let not God speak to us , lest we die . Speak thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own ...
... intellect . They say with those foolish Israelites , ' Let not God speak to us , lest we die . Speak thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own ...
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