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The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infusions .
The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infusions .
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The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction .
The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction .
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The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction .
The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction .
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What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras ? Nay , what does history yet record of the metaphysical annals of man ? What light does it shed on those mysteries which we hide ...
What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras ? Nay , what does history yet record of the metaphysical annals of man ? What light does it shed on those mysteries which we hide ...
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What is the nature and power of that science - baffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ?
What is the nature and power of that science - baffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ?
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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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