Essays - First SeriesThe Floating Press, 2009 M01 1 - 314 pages American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement. Summing up his work, Emerson said that his primary principle was "the infinitude of the private man", and advised to "make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." His First Series collects together the following 12 essays: History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect and Art. |
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... man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age. The fact narrated must ...
... man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age. The fact narrated must ...
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... man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firrnament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought ... man's education when he 40.
... man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firrnament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought ... man's education when he 40.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ... man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ... man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise ...
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Contents
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39 | |
Compensation | 80 |
Spiritual Laws | 112 |
Love | 145 |
Friendship | 164 |
Prudence | 188 |
Heroism | 207 |
The OverSoul | 226 |
Circles | 254 |
Intellect | 274 |
Art | 295 |
Endnotes | 313 |
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