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We as we read must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia ...
We as we read must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia ...
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... and if England or Egypt have any thing to say to him , he will try the case ; if not , let them for ever be silent He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike .
... and if England or Egypt have any thing to say to him , he will try the case ; if not , let them for ever be silent He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike .
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His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto ...
His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto ...
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The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction .
The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction .
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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide : him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with desire .
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide : him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with desire .
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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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