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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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Much revolving them , he writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of ...
Much revolving them , he writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of ...
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Broader and deeper we must write our annals , from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , - if we would trulier express our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology ...
Broader and deeper we must write our annals , from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , - if we would trulier express our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology ...
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I shun father and mother and wife and brother , when my genius calls I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation .
I shun father and mother and wife and brother , when my genius calls I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation .
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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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