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It must be that when God speaketh , he should communicate not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the centre of the present thought ; and new date ...
It must be that when God speaketh , he should communicate not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the centre of the present thought ; and new date ...
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The soul says , Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue ; the body would have the power over things to its own ends . The soul strives amain to live and work through all things . It would be the only fact .
The soul says , Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue ; the body would have the power over things to its own ends . The soul strives amain to live and work through all things . It would be the only fact .
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Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things , profit out of profitable things , power out of strong things , the moment we seek to separate them from the whole . We can no more halve things and get the sensual good , by itself , than we ...
Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things , profit out of profitable things , power out of strong things , the moment we seek to separate them from the whole . We can no more halve things and get the sensual good , by itself , than we ...
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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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