The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Fields, Osgood & Company, 1870 |
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... genius will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be ...
... genius will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be ...
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... genius since the world began ; from the era of the Egyp- tians and the Brahmins , to that of Pythagoras , of Plato , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the roadside , and from age to age , as each prophet ...
... genius since the world began ; from the era of the Egyp- tians and the Brahmins , to that of Pythagoras , of Plato , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the roadside , and from age to age , as each prophet ...
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... genius fear and hate ; —debt , which consumes so much time , which so crip- ples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone , and is needed most by those who suffer from ...
... genius fear and hate ; —debt , which consumes so much time , which so crip- ples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone , and is needed most by those who suffer from ...
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... genius . This is good , say they , — let us hold by this . They pin me down . They look backward and not forward . But genius looks forward ; the eyes of man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead ; man hopes ; genius creates ...
... genius . This is good , say they , — let us hold by this . They pin me down . They look backward and not forward . But genius looks forward ; the eyes of man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead ; man hopes ; genius creates ...
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... Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over - influence . The literature of every nation bear me witness . The English dramatic poets have Shakespearized now for two hundred years . Undoubtedly there is a right way of ...
... Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over - influence . The literature of every nation bear me witness . The English dramatic poets have Shakespearized now for two hundred years . Undoubtedly there is a right way of ...
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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