The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 11-12Wm. H. Wise, 1911 - 416 pages |
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... thought it be but a silent wish that he may approve you , or add one moment to your life , do you not , in the very act , necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought ? In that act , the soul stands alone with God , and Jesus ...
... thought it be but a silent wish that he may approve you , or add one moment to your life , do you not , in the very act , necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought ? In that act , the soul stands alone with God , and Jesus ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. to the people and the modes of thought in the East , where it originated , is foreign and ... thoughts or emotions by symbolical actions . Most men find the bread and wine no aid to devotion , and to some it is a ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. to the people and the modes of thought in the East , where it originated , is foreign and ... thoughts or emotions by symbolical actions . Most men find the bread and wine no aid to devotion , and to some it is a ...
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... thought , and why he so thought , I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions , or those of Luke and John , respecting any form . I seem to lose the substance in seeking the shadow . That for which ...
... thought , and why he so thought , I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions , or those of Luke and John , respecting any form . I seem to lose the substance in seeking the shadow . That for which ...
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... thought is no man's invention , neither St. Pierre's nor Rousseau's , but the rising of the general tide in the human soul , - and rising highest , and first made visible , in the most simple and pure souls , who have therefore ...
... thought is no man's invention , neither St. Pierre's nor Rousseau's , but the rising of the general tide in the human soul , - and rising highest , and first made visible , in the most simple and pure souls , who have therefore ...
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... thought shall also melt it away . ' Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which ex- actly corresponds to their moral state , or their state of thought . Observe how Observe how every truth ...
... thought shall also melt it away . ' Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which ex- actly corresponds to their moral state , or their state of thought . Observe how Observe how every truth ...
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