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The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches. Genius studies the causal thought, and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from ...
The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches. Genius studies the causal thought, and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from ...
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It has been said that " common souls pay with what they do , nobler souls with that which they And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by ... Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach .
It has been said that " common souls pay with what they do , nobler souls with that which they And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by ... Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach .
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When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it ...
When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it ...
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Tantalus is but a name for you Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and ...
Tantalus is but a name for you Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and ...
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... of the self-sufficing and therefore self-relying soul. Thus all concentrates : let us not rove ; let us sit at home with the cause. Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by 70 SELF-RELIANCE.
... of the self-sufficing and therefore self-relying soul. Thus all concentrates : let us not rove ; let us sit at home with the cause. Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by 70 SELF-RELIANCE.
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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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