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" Let us have a robust, manly life ; let us know what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid and seasonable and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with real men and women, and not with skipping ghosts. "
Complete Works - Page 152
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 270 pages
...ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the skeptic, this of consideration, of self containing ; not at all of unbelief, not at all of universal denying; nor of universal doubting, doubtiug even that he doubts ; least of all, of scoffing, and profligate jeering at all that is stable...
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1857 - 300 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...not at all of universal denying, nor of universal doubting,—doubting even that he doubts ; least of all, of scoffing and profligate jeering at all...
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The Great Harmonia: The thinker

Andrew Jackson Davis - 1861 - 444 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with real men and real women, and not with skipping ghosts. * * Knowledge is the knowing that we can not know.* And even...
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Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...skipping ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing; not at all of unbelief; not at all of universal...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...skipping ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing ; not at all of unbelief ; not at all of universal...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...skipping ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing; not at all of unbelief; not at all of universal...
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid and seasonable and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...ghosts. This then is the right ground of the skeptic, —i this of consideration, of self-containing ; not at all of unbelief ; not at all of universal denying,...
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 252 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...skipping ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing; not at all of unbelief; not at all of universal...
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The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 504 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...skipping ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing ; not at all of unbelief ; not at all of universal...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the st off sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing ; not at all of unbelief ; not at all of universal...
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