 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...my present, and will always all circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death. 26. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...mine, it is not wit" (i. 53). With greater transcendental coarseness, he says on another occasion : " This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...underlie my present, and will always all circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...past; turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame; confounds the saint with the rogue; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...called life, and what is called death. ^ Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in tKe instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition...turns all riches to poverty ; all reputation to a shame ; confounds the saint with the rogue ; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate... | |
 | 1842 - 538 pages
...serious and important subjects are treated, which grates harshly on the ear : as for instance, — " This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame ; confounds the... | |
 | 1842 - 740 pages
...faith, law, and inspiration, for us living at this hour. ' Life only avails, not the having lived. * * * This one fact the world hates that the soul becomes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame ; confounds the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...underlie my present, and will always all circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...the world hates, that the soul becomes; for, that for ever degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty ; all reputation to a shame; confounds the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...underlie my present, and will always all circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...the world hates, that the soul becomes; for, that for ever degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty ; all reputation to a shame ; confounds the... | |
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. 
