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It needs a divine man to exhibit anything divine . A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise , shall give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does ...
It needs a divine man to exhibit anything divine . A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise , shall give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does ...
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All my wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving ; —the most trivial reverie , the faintest native emotion are domestic and divine . Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions , or rather ...
All my wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving ; —the most trivial reverie , the faintest native emotion are domestic and divine . Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions , or rather ...
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And , beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty , and separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which they have contracted in the world , the lover ascends ever to the highest beauty , to the love and ...
And , beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty , and separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which they have contracted in the world , the lover ascends ever to the highest beauty , to the love and ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Complete works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | H. Altemus, 1923 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 332 pages |
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