Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. Know then that the world exists for you. Miscellanies - Page 66by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
| New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...thy strength, courage, hope, comes from within. Man is spirit, and not a mere fleshly appetency. " Every spirit builds itself a house • and beyond its house a world ; and beyond its world a heaven. What we are that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have, 0 countrymen,... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...fixtdbut Jlttiii Spirit alters, moulds, makes it. The immobility or brutencss of nature is the .ibs,euce of spirit; to pure spirit, it is fluid, it is volatile, it is obedient. Every ^pirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world i heaven. Know then,... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...said; " Nature is not fixed but fluid. Spirit alters, moulds, makes it. The immobility or bruteness of nature, is the absence of spirit; to pure spirit,...that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...:—" Nature is not fixed, but fluid. Spirit alters, moulds, makes it. The immobility or bruteness of nature is the absence of spirit; to pure spirit,...that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth: Caesar called his house,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...said ; ' Nature is not fixed but fluid. Spirit alters, moulds, makes it. The immobility or bruteness of nature, is the absence of spirit ; to pure spirit,...that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth ; Caesar called his house.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...said ; ' Nature is not fixed but fluid. Spirit alters, moulds, makes it. The immobility or bruteness of nature, is the absence of spirit ; to pure spirit,...that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth ; Caesar called his house,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...BUILDERS. " NATURE is not fixed, but fluid. Spirit alters, moulds, makes it. The immobility or bruteness is the absence of spirit ; to pure spirit, it is fluid,...that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have, and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth ; Caesar called his house,... | |
| Benjamin B. Bowen - 1853 - 448 pages
...joy, of the unutterable happiness, which music alone can impart. THE TRUE AND THE APPARENT LIFE. " Every spirit builds itself a house ; and beyond its...house, a world ; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know thou that the world exists for you." MAN is placed upon the confines of two worlds, and is endowed... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...la not fixed, hut fluid. Spirit alters, moulds, makes it. The immohility or hruteness is the ahsence of spirit ; to pure spirit, it is fluid, it is volatile, it is ohedient. Every spirit huilds itself a house ; and, heyond its house, a world ; and heyond its world,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...;'•' Nature is not fixed, but fluid. Spirit alters, moulds, makes it. The immobility or bruteness of nature is the absence of spirit : to pure spirit,...that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth ; Caesar called his house,... | |
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