Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obedi- ence to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by ...
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obedi- ence to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by ...
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... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople . What does ...
... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople . What does ...
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... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have denied ...
... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have denied ...
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... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not ...
... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not ...
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. - the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom , of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism . We lie in the lap of immense intelligence , which makes us organs ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. - the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom , of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism . We lie in the lap of immense intelligence , which makes us organs ...
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