The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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... not be the victims of words . Society and solitude are deceptive names . It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people , but the readiness of · sympathy , that imports ; and a sound mind will SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE 15 .
... not be the victims of words . Society and solitude are deceptive names . It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people , but the readiness of · sympathy , that imports ; and a sound mind will SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE 15 .
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... words are unconsciously said . The conscious utterance of thought , by speech or action , to any end , is Art . ' From the first imitative babble of a child to the des- potism of eloquence ; from his first pile of toys or chip bridge to ...
... words are unconsciously said . The conscious utterance of thought , by speech or action , to any end , is Art . ' From the first imitative babble of a child to the des- potism of eloquence ; from his first pile of toys or chip bridge to ...
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... must work in the spirit in which we con- ceive a prophet to speak , or an angel of the Lord to act ; that is , he is not to speak his own words , or do his own works , or think his own thoughts , but he is to be an organ through 48 ART.
... must work in the spirit in which we con- ceive a prophet to speak , or an angel of the Lord to act ; that is , he is not to speak his own words , or do his own works , or think his own thoughts , but he is to be an organ through 48 ART.
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... words , like a storm - wind , can bring Terror and beauty on their wing ; In his every syllable Lurkern nature veritable ; A And though he speak in midnight dark , - In heaven no star , on earth no spark , Yet before the listener's eye ...
... words , like a storm - wind , can bring Terror and beauty on their wing ; In his every syllable Lurkern nature veritable ; A And though he speak in midnight dark , - In heaven no star , on earth no spark , Yet before the listener's eye ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. a prosperity so high or firm but two or three words can dishearten it . There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress . Isocrates described his art as " the power of magnifying what was small and ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. a prosperity so high or firm but two or three words can dishearten it . There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress . Isocrates described his art as " the power of magnifying what was small and ...
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