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Page 77
Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer ; if not , attend your own work and already the evil begins to be repaired . Our sympathy is just as base . We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company ...
Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer ; if not , attend your own work and already the evil begins to be repaired . Our sympathy is just as base . We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company ...
Page 95
Every excess causes a defect ; every defect an excess . Every sweet hath its sour ; every pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse . evil its good . Every faculty which is a receiver of COMPENSATION . 95.
Every excess causes a defect ; every defect an excess . Every sweet hath its sour ; every pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse . evil its good . Every faculty which is a receiver of COMPENSATION . 95.
Page 97
Things refuse to be mismanaged long . Res nolunt diu male administrari . Though no checks to a new evil appear , the checks exist , and will appear . If the government is cruel , the governor's life is not safe .
Things refuse to be mismanaged long . Res nolunt diu male administrari . Though no checks to a new evil appear , the checks exist , and will appear . If the government is cruel , the governor's life is not safe .
Page 99
If the good is there , so is the evil ; if the affinity , so the repulsion ; if the force , so the limitation . Thus is the universe alive . All things are moral . That soul which within us is a sentiment , outside of us is a law .
If the good is there , so is the evil ; if the affinity , so the repulsion ; if the force , so the limitation . Thus is the universe alive . All things are moral . That soul which within us is a sentiment , outside of us is a law .
Page 114
In general , every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor . As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself , so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist .
In general , every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor . As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself , so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist .
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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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