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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 , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal ...
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 , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal ...
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Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combinations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light HISTORY . 5.
Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combinations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light HISTORY . 5.
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The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for charity , the foundation of friendship and love , and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts ...
The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for charity , the foundation of friendship and love , and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts ...
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Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history ...
Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history ...
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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 . I remember one summer day , in the fields , my companion pointed out to me a broad ...
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 . I remember one summer day , in the fields , my companion pointed out to me a broad ...
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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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