Every Day with EmersonWhite, Evans, Penfold Company, 1902 - 99 pages |
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acter Art April balm of Gilead BELIEF and love,—a Compensation February four compound interest courage December Demonology devo divine diving bell Domestic Life September doors Doric dialect eighteen Inspiration eloquence Ethics January thirty-one everything you gain February four BELIEF fifteen Forces January thirty fourteen friends Friendship genius Goethe heart January twenty-eight ENTHUSIASM January twenty-nine Go July sixteen June love,—a believing love March mind moral nature nineteen November Over-Soul Perpetual Forces January plain dealing Plato poet private opinion quotation reform was once Reliance August Reliance February three Reliance October Republic October rich Robert Burns robust neighbor sciatica seben secret sense and plain September six seventeen Beauty Social Aims Society and Solitude soul has simply Sovereignty of Ethics Spiritual Laws Superlative January twenty-nine thirteen thirty EVERY truth thought three FOR everything true romance twelve twenty twenty-five twenty-four twenty-one twenty-seven twenty-six twenty-three twenty-two virtue wants Wealth
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Page 213 - If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, 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 265 - If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown ! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
Page 57 - His soul was made for the noblest society; he had in a short life exhausted the capabilities of this world; wherever there is knowledge, wherever there is virtue, wherever there is beauty, he will find a home.
Page 205 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 45 - As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird; Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.