The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... seems to exist for the excellent . The world is up- held by the veracity of good men : they make the earth whole- some . They who lived with them found life glad and nutri- tious . Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such ...
... seems to exist for the excellent . The world is up- held by the veracity of good men : they make the earth whole- some . They who lived with them found life glad and nutri- tious . Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such ...
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... seem as if each waited , like the enchanted princess in fairy tales , for a destined human deliverer . Each must be disenchanted , and walk forth to the day in human shape . In the history of discovery , the ripe and latent truth seems ...
... seem as if each waited , like the enchanted princess in fairy tales , for a destined human deliverer . Each must be disenchanted , and walk forth to the day in human shape . In the history of discovery , the ripe and latent truth seems ...
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... seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who oc- cupies himself with one thing , all his life long . The possibil ... seems a poverty that we can only spend it once : we wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might ...
... seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who oc- cupies himself with one thing , all his life long . The possibil ... seems a poverty that we can only spend it once : we wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might ...
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... seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force . It opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size , and inspires an audacious mental habit . We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder , and a sentence in a book , or a word ...
... seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force . It opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size , and inspires an audacious mental habit . We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder , and a sentence in a book , or a word ...
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... seem to have no good , without breach of good manners . Nobody is glad in the glad- ness of another , and our system is one of war , of an injurious superiority . Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first . It is our ...
... seem to have no good , without breach of good manners . Nobody is glad in the glad- ness of another , and our system is one of war , of an injurious superiority . Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first . It is our ...
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