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There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant ...
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant ...
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Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects ...
Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects ...
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A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him , and predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish ...
A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him , and predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish ...
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For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun . The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure , that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate , not one thing ...
For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun . The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure , that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate , not one thing ...
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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 the universal miracle , petty and particular miracles disappear .
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 the universal miracle , petty and particular miracles disappear .
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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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