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A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and ...
A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and ...
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When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institutions .
When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institutions .
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But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their ...
But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their ...
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But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their ...
But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their ...
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The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction ...
The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction ...
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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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