The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below , Which always find us young , And always keep us 80 . THE POET HOSE who are esteemed umpires of taste TH.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below , Which always find us young , And always keep us 80 . THE POET HOSE who are esteemed umpires of taste TH.
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... young man reveres men of genius , because , to speak truly , they are more himself than he is . They receive of the soul as he also receives , but they more . Nature enhances her beauty , to the of loving men , from their belief that ...
... young man reveres men of genius , because , to speak truly , they are more himself than he is . They receive of the soul as he also receives , but they more . Nature enhances her beauty , to the of loving men , from their belief that ...
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... young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table . He had left his work and gone rambling none knew whither , and had written hundreds of lines , but could not tell whether ...
... young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table . He had left his work and gone rambling none knew whither , and had written hundreds of lines , but could not tell whether ...
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... young men who owe us a new world , so readily and lavishly they promise , but they never acquit the debt ; they die young and dodge the account ; or if they live they lose themselves in the crowd . 2 Temperament also enters fully into ...
... young men who owe us a new world , so readily and lavishly they promise , but they never acquit the debt ; they die young and dodge the account ; or if they live they lose themselves in the crowd . 2 Temperament also enters fully into ...
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... young people have thought and written much on labor and reform , and for all that they have written , neither the world nor themselves have got on a step . Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity . If a man ...
... young people have thought and written much on labor and reform , and for all that they have written , neither the world nor themselves have got on a step . Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity . If a man ...
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