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There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant ...
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant ...
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great voice of eloquence ; then the effect is to be wide , slow , permanent , over the minds of men ; if the pages instruct you not , they will die like flies in the hour . The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion ...
great voice of eloquence ; then the effect is to be wide , slow , permanent , over the minds of men ; if the pages instruct you not , they will die like flies in the hour . The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion ...
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... and that form of being assigned to us ? A good man is contented . I love and honor Epaminondas , but I do not wish to be Epaminondas . I hold it more just to love the world of this hour , than the world of his hour .
... and that form of being assigned to us ? A good man is contented . I love and honor Epaminondas , but I do not wish to be Epaminondas . I hold it more just to love the world of this hour , than the world of his hour .
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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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