The Conduct of LifeRiverside Press, 1904 - 434 pages |
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Æsir Æsop animal beauty believe better born Boston brain called character charm Concord culture dæmon Diogenes of Apollonia divine Emerson England essay eternal eyes F. B. Sanborn face faith farm Fate force friends genius give Goethe grace hand heart heaven heroes Honest Man's Fortune horse human illusion intellect Journal Julius Cæsar king lecture limp band live look man's manners Margaret Fuller means mind moral motto nature never Over-Soul persons phrenology plant Plato Plutarch Poems poet politics poor quadruped Quatrain race RALPH WALDO EMERSON religion rich royal sails rule Saadi secret sense society solitude soul spirit talent things thou thought tion town truth ture universe verse virtue wealth whilst wise wish wrote Yoganidra youth
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Page 360 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means, and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...
Page 396 - As though to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And...
Page 394 - We -lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Page 403 - To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust. Trump of their rescue, sound ! Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim.
Page 382 - Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round ; In vain produced, all rays return ; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
Page 323 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Page 402 - O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red, All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
Page 35 - Fate involves the melioration. No statement of the Universe can have any soundness which does not admit its ascending effort. The direction of the whole and of the parts is toward benefit, and in proportion to the health. Behind every individual closes organization ; before him opens liberty, — the Better, the Best.
Page 425 - And what if Trade sow cities Like shells along the shore, And thatch with towns the prairie broad With railways ironed o'er? — They are but sailing foam-bells Along Thought's causing stream, And take their shape and sun-color From him that sends the dream.
Page 390 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.