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This throws our actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
This throws our actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
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Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius --- anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude ...
Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius --- anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude ...
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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 rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will demand and find compensation ...
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 rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will demand and find compensation ...
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It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base ...
It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base ...
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If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises , they lose all heart . If the young merchant fails , men say he is ruined . If the finest genius studies at one . of our colleges , and is not installed in an office within one year ...
If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises , they lose all heart . If the young merchant fails , men say he is ruined . If the finest genius studies at one . of our colleges , and is not installed in an office within one year ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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