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Page 23
The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad ...
The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad ...
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... the present day . The antagonism of the two tendencies is not less active in individuals , as the love of inate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits adventure or the love of repose happens to predomof 26 HISTORY .
... the present day . The antagonism of the two tendencies is not less active in individuals , as the love of inate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits adventure or the love of repose happens to predomof 26 HISTORY .
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If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers.
If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers.
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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have ...
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have ...
Page 66
It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate , not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the centre of the present thought ; and new date ...
It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate , not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the centre of the present thought ; and new date ...
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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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