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So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literof men ; course . ature writes the character of the wise man ...
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literof men ; course . ature writes the character of the wise man ...
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course . ature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is ...
course . ature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is ...
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Hence Plato said that “ poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . ” All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that ...
Hence Plato said that “ poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . ” All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that ...
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He , too , shall pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man .
He , too , shall pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man .
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... and Luther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in ...
... and Luther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in ...
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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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