The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 27
... present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with ...
... present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with ...
Page 42
... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teach- ers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into ...
... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teach- ers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into ...
Page 44
... alike . There is no time to it But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that sur- round him , stands on tiptoe to forsee the future 44.
... alike . There is no time to it But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that sur- round him , stands on tiptoe to forsee the future 44.
Page 45
... present , above time . Reliance This should be plain enough . You see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God Himself , unless He speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so ...
... present , above time . Reliance This should be plain enough . You see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God Himself , unless He speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so ...
Page 48
... present , and will always all circum- stance , and what is called life , and what is called death . Life only avails , not the having lived . Power ceases in the instant of re- pose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past ...
... present , and will always all circum- stance , and what is called life , and what is called death . Life only avails , not the having lived . Power ceases in the instant of re- pose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past ...
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