Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... COMPENSATION 89 IV . SPIRITUAL LAWS . 123 V. LOVE . 159 · VI . FRIENDSHIP 181 VII . PRUDENCE 207 VIII . HEROISM 231 IX . THE OVER - SOUL 249 X. CIRCLES 279 XI . INTELLECT 301 XII . ART . 325 HISTORY . THERE is no great and no small To.
... COMPENSATION 89 IV . SPIRITUAL LAWS . 123 V. LOVE . 159 · VI . FRIENDSHIP 181 VII . PRUDENCE 207 VIII . HEROISM 231 IX . THE OVER - SOUL 249 X. CIRCLES 279 XI . INTELLECT 301 XII . ART . 325 HISTORY . THERE is no great and no small To.
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... prudence to face every claimant and pay every just demand on your time , your talents , or your heart . Always pay ; for first or last you must pay your entire debt . Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice , but ...
... prudence to face every claimant and pay every just demand on your time , your talents , or your heart . Always pay ; for first or last you must pay your entire debt . Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice , but ...
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... prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world , whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar ; so that its gravest discourse has a savor of hams and powdering - tubs . Worst , when this sensualism ...
... prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world , whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar ; so that its gravest discourse has a savor of hams and powdering - tubs . Worst , when this sensualism ...
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... poet gladly sung , Fair to old and foul to young ; Scorn not thou the love of parts , And the articles of arts . Grandeur of the perfect sphere Thanks the atoms that cohere . VII . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write PRUDENCE.
... poet gladly sung , Fair to old and foul to young ; Scorn not thou the love of parts , And the articles of arts . Grandeur of the perfect sphere Thanks the atoms that cohere . VII . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write PRUDENCE.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. VII . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence , where- of I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing of means and methods , not ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. VII . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence , where- of I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing of means and methods , not ...
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