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In splendid variety these changes come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them ...
In splendid variety these changes come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them ...
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Yet every history should be written in a wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome ...
Yet every history should be written in a wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome ...
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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have ...
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have ...
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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For , the sense of being which in calm ...
We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For , the sense of being which in calm ...
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... of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , - means , teachers , ; texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
... of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , - means , teachers , ; texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
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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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