The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... success , a quality is ripe which is then in request . Other days will de- mand other qualities . Some rays escape the common observer , and want a finely adapted eye . Ask the great man if there be none greater . His companions are ...
... success , a quality is ripe which is then in request . Other days will de- mand other qualities . Some rays escape the common observer , and want a finely adapted eye . Ask the great man if there be none greater . His companions are ...
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... success in explaining existence . The perfect enigma remains . But there is an injustice in as- suming this ambition for Plato . Let us not seem to treat with flippancy his venerable name . Men , in proportion to their intellect , have ...
... success in explaining existence . The perfect enigma remains . But there is an injustice in as- suming this ambition for Plato . Let us not seem to treat with flippancy his venerable name . Men , in proportion to their intellect , have ...
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... success is the moral aim , which endeared him to mankind . 66 Intellect , " he said , " is king of heaven and of earth " ; but , in Plato , intellect is always moral . His writings have also the sempiternal youth of poetry . For their ...
... success is the moral aim , which endeared him to mankind . 66 Intellect , " he said , " is king of heaven and of earth " ; but , in Plato , intellect is always moral . His writings have also the sempiternal youth of poetry . For their ...
Page 67
... one would say , that , with the highest elements , it has failed of success . It came near to be the Hymn of Love , which Plato attempted in the “ Banquet ” ; the love , which , Dante says , Casella sang SWEDENBORG ; OR , THE MYSTIC 67.
... one would say , that , with the highest elements , it has failed of success . It came near to be the Hymn of Love , which Plato attempted in the “ Banquet ” ; the love , which , Dante says , Casella sang SWEDENBORG ; OR , THE MYSTIC 67.
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... Success , or a fortunate gen- ins , seems to depend on a happy adjustment of heart and brain ; on a due proportion , hard to hit , of moral and mental power , which , perhaps , obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a ...
... Success , or a fortunate gen- ins , seems to depend on a happy adjustment of heart and brain ; on a due proportion , hard to hit , of moral and mental power , which , perhaps , obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a ...
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