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" There is a difference between one and another hour of life in their authority and subsequent effect . Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than... "
Essays: First Series - Page 250
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 343 pages
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments ; our vice is habitual. Yet is there a depth in those brief moments, which constrains us...hopes of man, namely, the appeal to experience, is forever invalid and vain. A mightier hope abolishes despair. We give up the past to the objector, and...
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Human nature, a philosophical exposition of the divine institution of reward ...

Human nature - 1844 - 116 pages
...admirable American author, which is in perfect accordance with my own feelings and views on the subject. " The argument which is always forthcoming to silence...appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain. A mightier hope abolishes despair. We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope. He must explain...
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Human Nature: A Philosophical Exposition of the Divine Institution of Reward ...

1844 - 112 pages
...admirable American author, which is in perfect accordance with my own feelings and views on the subject. " The argument which is always forthcoming to silence...appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain. A mightier hope abolishes despair. We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope. He must explain...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...another hour of life, in their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments ; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments...vain. We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope. He must explain this hope. We grant that human life is mean ; but how did we find out that...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments ; our vice is habitual. Yet is there a depth in those brief moments, which constrains us...appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain. A mightier hope abolishes despair. We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope. He must explain...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Yet is there a depth in those brief moments, which constrains us...silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man—namely, the appeal to experience—is for ever invalid and vain. A mightier hope abolishes despair....
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments ; our vice is habitual. Yet is there a depth in those brief moments, which constrains us...appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain. A mightier hope abolishes despair. We give up the past to the objector and yet we hope. He must explain...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments ; our vice is habitual. Yet is there a depth in those brief moments, which constrains us...appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain. A mightier hope abolishes despair. We give up the past to the objector and yet we hope. He must explain...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...another hour of life, in their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments ; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments...vain. We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope. He must explain this hope. We grant that human life is mean ; but how did we find out that...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...another hour of life, in their authority and subsequent, effect. Our faith comes in moments ; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments...vain. We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope. He must explain this hope. We. grant that human life is mean ; but how did we find out that...
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