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He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the ...
He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the ...
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What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that ...
What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that ...
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... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done ...
... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done ...
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As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind .
As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind .
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It would steal , if it could , the fire of the Creator , and live apart from him , and independent of him . The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue .
It would steal , if it could , the fire of the Creator , and live apart from him , and independent of him . The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue .
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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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