EssaysLittle Leather Library Corporation, 1910 - 96 pages |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse . It is to answer for its moderation with its life . For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly . For every thing you have missed , you have gained some- thing ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse . It is to answer for its moderation with its life . For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly . For every thing you have missed , you have gained some- thing ...
Page 151
... equal to every relation . It makes no difference how many friends I have and what con- tent I can find in conversing with each , if there be one to whom I am not equal . If I have shrunk un- equal from one contest , instantly the joy I ...
... equal to every relation . It makes no difference how many friends I have and what con- tent I can find in conversing with each , if there be one to whom I am not equal . If I have shrunk un- equal from one contest , instantly the joy I ...
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... imprisoned , man crystalized , man vegetative , speaks to man impersonated . That power which does not respect quantity , which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel , delegates its smile to NATURE . 133.
... imprisoned , man crystalized , man vegetative , speaks to man impersonated . That power which does not respect quantity , which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel , delegates its smile to NATURE . 133.
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