Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain and the Islands , the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private ...
... believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain and the Islands , the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private ...
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... believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the ...
... believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the ...
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... believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the ...
... believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the ...
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... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators ...
... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators ...
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... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators ...
... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | John B. Alden, 1886 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 343 pages |
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