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Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the ...
Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the ...
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Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle ...
Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle ...
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... which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to ...
... which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to ...
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It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper apprehension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to ...
It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper apprehension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to ...
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... as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his wagon , and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc .
... as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his wagon , and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc .
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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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