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A true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in disHe hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character ...
A true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in disHe hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character ...
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The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains ...
The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains ...
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... that " common souls pay with what they do ; nobler souls with that which they are . ” And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its a very looks and manners , the same power and HISTORY . 15.
... that " common souls pay with what they do ; nobler souls with that which they are . ” And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its a very looks and manners , the same power and HISTORY . 15.
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a very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must ...
a very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must ...
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Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who ...
Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who ...
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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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