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" ... of the Deity is not his; cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous... "
Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Page 92
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
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The Microcosm: Or, Little World of Home, Volumes 1-3

1835 - 616 pages
...indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair. On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive always from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude,...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair. On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive always from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude,...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair. On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive always from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude,...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair. On the other part, instead of being its own seer,...Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years. Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be...
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Compitum: Or, The Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church, Book 7

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...disagreeing consent. They will muse beyond it— " Let a mind," says a deep thinker, " receive always from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents...and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done." Age is delivered by Catholicism from having its understanding inordinately biassed by the genius of...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair. On the other part, instead of being its own •seer,...by over-influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years. Undoubtedly...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years. Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair. On the other part, instead of being its own seer,...by over-influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakespearized now for two hundred years. Undoubtedly...
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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...the mind's own sense of good /and fair. //N\L/~On the other part, instead of being its own "-"geer, let it receive from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without d 'of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done. Genius is always sufficiently...
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