The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol. I: Miscellanies. - Essays. Vol. II: Representative Men. - English Traits. - Conduct of Life.]. II, Volume 2Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1870 |
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... universe . Serving others is serving us . I must absolve me to myself . Mind thy affair , ' says the spirit : .'coxcomb , would you meddle with the skies , or with other people ? ' In- direct service is left . Men have a pictorial or ...
... universe . Serving others is serving us . I must absolve me to myself . Mind thy affair , ' says the spirit : .'coxcomb , would you meddle with the skies , or with other people ? ' In- direct service is left . Men have a pictorial or ...
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... universe , and to impose the law of its being on every other creature , Nature steadily aims to protect each against every other . Each is self - defended . Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from ...
... universe , and to impose the law of its being on every other creature , Nature steadily aims to protect each against every other . Each is self - defended . Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from ...
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... universe is symptomatic , and life is mnemonical . No man , in all the procession of famous men , is reason or illumination , or that essence we were looking for ; but is an exhibition , in some quarter , of new possibilities . Could we ...
... universe is symptomatic , and life is mnemonical . No man , in all the procession of famous men , is reason or illumination , or that essence we were looking for ; but is an exhibition , in some quarter , of new possibilities . Could we ...
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... universe . He was good ; and he who is good has no kind of envy . Exempt from envy , he wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself . Whosoever , taught by wise men , shall admit this as the prime cause of the ...
... universe . He was good ; and he who is good has no kind of envy . Exempt from envy , he wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself . Whosoever , taught by wise men , shall admit this as the prime cause of the ...
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... universe is perforated by a million channels for his activity . All things mount and mount . All his thought has this ascension ; in Phædrus , teaching that beauty is the most lovely of all things , PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . 37.
... universe is perforated by a million channels for his activity . All things mount and mount . All his thought has this ascension ; in Phædrus , teaching that beauty is the most lovely of all things , PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . 37.
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