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... a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it were run into one , why should I measure degrees of latitude , why The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own should I count Egyptian years ?
... a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it were run into one , why should I measure degrees of latitude , why The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own should I count Egyptian years ?
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The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes him know the Proteus . What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday , who slept last night like a corpse , and this morning stood and ran ?
The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes him know the Proteus . What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday , who slept last night like a corpse , and this morning stood and ran ?
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When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish. When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish. When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
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Great men have always done so , and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age , betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart , working through their hands , predominating in all ...
Great men have always done so , and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age , betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart , working through their hands , predominating in all ...
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Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions , and knows that to his ... of perceptions as of opinions , or rather much more readily ; for they do not distinguish between perception and ...
Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions , and knows that to his ... of perceptions as of opinions , or rather much more readily ; for they do not distinguish between perception and ...
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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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