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The Greek had it seems the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as ... When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is ...
The Greek had it seems the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as ... When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is ...
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It would steal if it could the fire of the Creator , and live apart from him and independent of him . The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue .
It would steal if it could the fire of the Creator , and live apart from him and independent of him . The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue .
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But that which a man is , does al ways by necessity acquire ; and what the man acquires , is living property , which does not wait the beck of rulers , or mobs , or revolutions , or fire , or storm , or bankruptcies , but perpetually ...
But that which a man is , does al ways by necessity acquire ; and what the man acquires , is living property , which does not wait the beck of rulers , or mobs , or revolutions , or fire , or storm , or bankruptcies , but perpetually ...
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If you see smoke , there must be fire . If you see a hand or a limb , you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind . Every act rewards itself , or in other words integrates itself , in a twofold manner ; first in the ...
If you see smoke , there must be fire . If you see a hand or a limb , you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind . Every act rewards itself , or in other words integrates itself , in a twofold manner ; first in the ...
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The good man has absolute good , which like fire turns every thing to its own nature , so that you cannot do him any harm ; but as the royal armies sent against Napoleon , when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies ...
The good man has absolute good , which like fire turns every thing to its own nature , so that you cannot do him any harm ; but as the royal armies sent against Napoleon , when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies ...
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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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