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Ralph Waldo Emerson. 199 221 241 • 271 • 293 315 HISTORY . There is no great and no small To. ESSAY VII . PRUDENCE ESSAY VIII . HEROISM ESSAY IX . THE OVER - SOUL CIRCLES INTELLECT • ART ESSAY X. ESSAY XI . ESSAY XII . vi CONTENTS .
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 199 221 241 • 271 • 293 315 HISTORY . There is no great and no small To. ESSAY VII . PRUDENCE ESSAY VIII . HEROISM ESSAY IX . THE OVER - SOUL CIRCLES INTELLECT • ART ESSAY X. ESSAY XI . ESSAY XII . vi CONTENTS .
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... Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combi- nations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the HISTORY . 5.
... Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combi- nations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the HISTORY . 5.
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... soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting ...
... soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting ...
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... souls to a given activity . It has been said , that “ common souls pay with what they do ; nobler souls with that which they are . And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its " " very looks and ...
... souls to a given activity . It has been said , that “ common souls pay with what they do ; nobler souls with that which they are . And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its " " very looks and ...
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... soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one , why should I measure degrees of latitude , why should I ...
... soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one , why should I measure degrees of latitude , why should I ...
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