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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. "
The Psychoanalytic Review - Page 373
1917
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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...This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds...
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Essays

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...This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame; confounds...
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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...This one fact the World hates, that the soul becomes ; for, that forever degrades the past ; turns all riches to poverty ; all reputation to a shame ; confounds...
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Essays

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...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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

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...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...
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Essays, orations and lectures

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...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...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 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...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 ;...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 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...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...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 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...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...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 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...aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul 6P comes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame,...
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