The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Fields, Osgood & Company, 1870 |
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... . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical . Whenever a true theory appears , it will be its own evidence . Its test is , that it will explain all phe- nomena . Now many are thought not only unexplained but.
... . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical . Whenever a true theory appears , it will be its own evidence . Its test is , that it will explain all phe- nomena . Now many are thought not only unexplained but.
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... appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve for many generations the remem- brance of the city of God which had been shown ! But every night come out these envoys of beauty , and light the ...
... appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve for many generations the remem- brance of the city of God which had been shown ! But every night come out these envoys of beauty , and light the ...
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... appears like childish petulance , when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this green ball which floats him through the heavens . What angels invented these splendid ornaments 1 ...
... appears like childish petulance , when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this green ball which floats him through the heavens . What angels invented these splendid ornaments 1 ...
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... appears to men , or it does not ap- pear . When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle , the wise man doubts , if , at all other times , he is not blind and deaf ; " Can these things be , And overcome us like a summer's cloud ...
... appears to men , or it does not ap- pear . When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle , the wise man doubts , if , at all other times , he is not blind and deaf ; " Can these things be , And overcome us like a summer's cloud ...
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... appear to be degradations . When this appears among so many that surround it , the spirit prefers it to all others . It says : “ From such as this have I drawn joy and knowledge ; in such as this have I found and beheld myself ; I will ...
... appear to be degradations . When this appears among so many that surround it , the spirit prefers it to all others . It says : “ From such as this have I drawn joy and knowledge ; in such as this have I found and beheld myself ; I will ...
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Page 45 - into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce,
Page 61 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience,— patience
Page 397 - truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose
Page 241 - thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought,
Page 241 - conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil
Page 40 - kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation. It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. What is a day *? What is a year
Page 354 - And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible, and affirms itself no mortal, but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being. THE OVER-SOUL. " But souls that of his own good life partake, He loves as his own self; dear as his
Page 27 - woman, house and trade. In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul
Page 243 - everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one' of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Page 30 - And^ as the morning steals upon the night, The charm dissolves apace, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. Begins to swell : and the approaching tide