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Page 49
... it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word , because the eyes of ...
... it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word , because the eyes of ...
Page 50
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have ...
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have ...
Page 58
texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and , future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , —one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , , and , in ...
texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and , future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , —one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , , and , in ...
Page 59
But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on titpoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he ...
But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on titpoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he ...
Page 61
Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state , in the shooting of the gulf , in the darting to an aim . This one fact the world hates , that the soul becomes ; for that for ...
Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state , in the shooting of the gulf , in the darting to an aim . This one fact the world hates , that the soul becomes ; for that for ...
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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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