The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... earth and found it deliciously sweet . Nature seems to exist for the excellent . The world is upheld by the veracity of good men : they make the earth wholesome . They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious . Life is sweet ...
... earth and found it deliciously sweet . Nature seems to exist for the excellent . The world is upheld by the veracity of good men : they make the earth wholesome . They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious . Life is sweet ...
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... earth rolls ; every clod and stone comes to the me- ridian so every organ , function , acid , crystal , grain of dust , has its relation to the brain . It waits long , but its turn comes . Each plant has its parasite , and each created ...
... earth rolls ; every clod and stone comes to the me- ridian so every organ , function , acid , crystal , grain of dust , has its relation to the brain . It waits long , but its turn comes . Each plant has its parasite , and each created ...
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... earth . This quasi omnipresence supplies the imbecility of our condition . In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other , it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once : we wish for a thousand heads ...
... earth . This quasi omnipresence supplies the imbecility of our condition . In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other , it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once : we wish for a thousand heads ...
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... earth as by acquiring a new planet.1 We are too passive in the reception of these material or semi - material aids . We must not be sacks and stomachs . To ascend one step , - we are better served through our sympathy . Activ- ity is ...
... earth as by acquiring a new planet.1 We are too passive in the reception of these material or semi - material aids . We must not be sacks and stomachs . To ascend one step , - we are better served through our sympathy . Activ- ity is ...
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... earth , he would speak in the style of Plato . " With this palatial air there is , for the direct aim of several of his works and running through the tenor of them all , a certain earnestness , which mounts , in the Republic and in the ...
... earth , he would speak in the style of Plato . " With this palatial air there is , for the direct aim of several of his works and running through the tenor of them all , a certain earnestness , which mounts , in the Republic and in the ...
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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.