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Page 35
Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul , - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and ...
Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul , - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and ...
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... to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations . Are they my poor ? I tell thee thou foolish philanthropist that ...
... to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations . Are they my poor ? I tell thee thou foolish philanthropist that ...
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Speak thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God .
Speak thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God .
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Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education ,, our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on ...
Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education ,, our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on ...
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Ask nothing of men , and , in the endless mutation , thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee . He who knows that power is inborn , that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and ...
Ask nothing of men , and , in the endless mutation , thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee . He who knows that power is inborn , that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him 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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