The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men . Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men ; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid , as of health , eternal youth , fine senses , arts of USES ...
... common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men . Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men ; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid , as of health , eternal youth , fine senses , arts of USES ...
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... common men , there are no com- mon men . All men are at last of a size ; and true art is only possible on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere . Fair play and an open field and freshest laurels to all who have ...
... common men , there are no com- mon men . All men are at last of a size ; and true art is only possible on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere . Fair play and an open field and freshest laurels to all who have ...
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... common ob- server , and want a finely adapted eye . Ask the great man if there be none greater . His com- panions are ; and not the less great but the more that society cannot see them . Nature never sends a great man into the planet ...
... common ob- server , and want a finely adapted eye . Ask the great man if there be none greater . His com- panions are ; and not the less great but the more that society cannot see them . Nature never sends a great man into the planet ...
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... common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them transferred to the walls of the world . For a time our teachers serve us personally , as metres or mile- stones of progress . Once they were angels ...
... common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them transferred to the walls of the world . For a time our teachers serve us personally , as metres or mile- stones of progress . Once they were angels ...
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... most respect . His sense deepens , his merits multiply , with study . When we say , Here is a fine collection of fables ; or when we praise the style , or the common sense , or arithmetic , we speak as boys , and much 78 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
... most respect . His sense deepens , his merits multiply , with study . When we say , Here is a fine collection of fables ; or when we praise the style , or the common sense , or arithmetic , we speak as boys , and much 78 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
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Page 88 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Page 305 - O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red, All things through thee take nobler form And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair ; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
Page 320 - ... souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
Page 349 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Page 341 - I will write it, — that there is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunderstroke, I beseech you by all angels to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts, by corruption and groans.
Page 14 - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
Page 339 - Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life.
Page 316 - The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, And fill the long reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine; And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey...
Page 39 - Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.
Page 6 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.