The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... moral force is a positive good . It goes out from you , whether you will or not , and profits me whom you never thought of . I cannot even hear of personal vigor of any kind , great power of performance , without fresh resolution . We ...
... moral force is a positive good . It goes out from you , whether you will or not , and profits me whom you never thought of . I cannot even hear of personal vigor of any kind , great power of performance , without fresh resolution . We ...
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... moral truths into the general mind ? I am plagued , in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices . If I work in my garden and prune an apple- tree , I am well enough entertained , and could continue in- definitely in the like ...
... moral truths into the general mind ? I am plagued , in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices . If I work in my garden and prune an apple- tree , I am well enough entertained , and could continue in- definitely in the like ...
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... moral elevations of her husband . But we stop where they stop . Very hardly can we take another step . The great , or such as hold of nature , and transcend fashions , by their fidelity to universal ideas , are saviors from these ...
... moral elevations of her husband . But we stop where they stop . Very hardly can we take another step . The great , or such as hold of nature , and transcend fashions , by their fidelity to universal ideas , are saviors from these ...
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... morals , the Akhlak - y - Jalaly , from him . Mysticism finds in Plato all its texts . This citizen of a town in Greece is no villager nor patriot . An Englishman reads and says , ' how English ! ' a German , -how Teutonic ! ' an ...
... morals , the Akhlak - y - Jalaly , from him . Mysticism finds in Plato all its texts . This citizen of a town in Greece is no villager nor patriot . An Englishman reads and says , ' how English ! ' a German , -how Teutonic ! ' an ...
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... morals , or practical wisdom . There was never such range of speculation . Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought . Great havoc makes he among our originalities . We have reached the ...
... morals , or practical wisdom . There was never such range of speculation . Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought . Great havoc makes he among our originalities . We have reached the ...
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