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" That is always best which gives me to myself. The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself. That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen. "
Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 128
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 372 pages
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...it. - That is always best which gives me to myself. The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself. That which shows God in me,...untimely oblivion creep over me, and I shall decease for ever. The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...it. That is always best which gives me to myself. The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself. That which shows God in me,...untimely oblivion creep over me, and I shall decease for ever. The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish...
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The United Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 2

1848 - 596 pages
...or phenomenal, buta real, and therefore necessary existence. He explains himself where he says — "that which shows God in me fortifies me. That which...There is no longer a necessary reason for my being." Such is the system which is to supersede all religions whatsoever, and to prove as imperishable as...
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Peter Schlemihl in America ...

George Wood - 1848 - 508 pages
...ennobles our nature by making known to us our relations to him. But the writer of the discourse says : " That which shows God in me fortifies me. That which...God out of me makes me a wart and a wen." There is much more to the same purpose. But there can be no doubt about the opinions which Mr. Emerson has expressed....
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...: " That is always best which gives me to myself The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself. That which shows God in me,...me, makes me a wart and a wen. There is no longer a NO. x. 28 necessary reason for my being. Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion creep over me,...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1850 - 548 pages
...: " That is always best which gives me to myself. The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself. That which shows God in me,...shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen. There ia no longer a necessary reason for my being. Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion creep over...
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Emerson, His Life and Writings

January Searle - 1855 - 94 pages
...always best which gives me to myself. The sublime is excited in me by the great Stoical doctrine, 1 Obey thyself.' That which shows God in me fortifies...being. Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion oreep over me, and I shall decease for ever. . . By his holy thoughts Jesus serves us, and thus only....
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The Primitive Church (or Baptist) Magazine, Volumes 15-16

1858 - 624 pages
...: "That is always best which gives me to myself. The sublime is excited in me by the great Stoical doctrine. Obey thyself. That which shows God in me...which shows God out of me makes me a wart and a wen." — "Prayer is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the Spirit of God pronouncing...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...: " That is always best which gives me to myself. The sublime is excited in mo by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself. That which shows God in me,...untimely oblivion creep over me, and I shall decease for ever." " Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves. When a man comes,...
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A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, and Historical View of Slavery, from the Days ...

John Henry Hopkins - 1864 - 394 pages
...always best," saith he, " which gives me to myself. The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, OBEY THYSELF. That which shows God in me,...There is no longer a necessary reason for my being, "t Speaking, in the same volume, of the decay of religion, Mr. Emerson makes the following statement,...
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