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Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind , and every thing is in turn intelligible to him , as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs .
Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind , and every thing is in turn intelligible to him , as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs .
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When a a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , — when a truth that fired the 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 ...
When a a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , — when a truth that fired the 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 ...
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Again , in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times , he repeats step for step the part of old reformers , and in the search after truth finds like them new perils to virtue .
Again , in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times , he repeats step for step the part of old reformers , and in the search after truth finds like them new perils to virtue .
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I ought to go upright and vital , and speak the rude truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last ...
I ought to go upright and vital , and speak the rude truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last ...
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Rough and graceless would be such greeting , but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love . Your goodness must have some edge to it , else it is none . " The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the ...
Rough and graceless would be such greeting , but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love . Your goodness must have some edge to it , else it is none . " The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the ...
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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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