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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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... or stringent laws and customs , tending to invigorate the national bond , were the check on the old rovers ; and the cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itineracy of the present day .
... or stringent laws and customs , tending to invigorate the national bond , were the check on the old rovers ; and the cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itineracy of the present day .
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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 ...
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... should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the centre of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom ...
... should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the centre of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom ...
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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 ...
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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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