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To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circumstance .
To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circumstance .
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Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder .
Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder .
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Hence evidently the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus . Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people . They cannot unite him to history , or reconcile him with themselves .
Hence evidently the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus . Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people . They cannot unite him to history , or reconcile him with themselves .
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The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify selves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which of that particular ray . We but half express our 48 SELF - RELIANCE .
The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify selves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which of that particular ray . We but half express our 48 SELF - RELIANCE .
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selves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents . It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues , so it be faithfully imparted , but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards .
selves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents . It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues , so it be faithfully imparted , but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards .
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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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