In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth... Essays and English Traits - Page 154by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 493 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...ought not to creep on a human mind. In nature every moment is new ; the past is always swallowed and forgotten ; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energising spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant, to secure it against a higher love. No... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...from our god of Persuasion, then, God may fire our hearts, with his own presence ,but not before. 1. No love can be bound by oath, or covenant, to secure it against a higvi love. Qod — scatter« love — on every «tefe, Freely — among bis children all ; And alvaus—hraru... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...ought not to creep on a human mind. In nature, every moment is new ; the past is always swallowed and forgotten ; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is...transition, the energizing spirit. No love can be bound by bath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow... | |
| F. Williams - 1855 - 346 pages
...over the course he was to take. His eyes momentarily glanced over the open page: he read the words— "No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure...be trivial tomorrow in the light of new thoughts." There was temptation in the words, falling as they did upon soil already too well prepared for the... | |
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...thinks great is great. The soul's emphasis is alsubjective. ways right." l " No love can be bound hy oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love....only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope of them." 2 Our author admits that the law thus enunciated confounds all established notions of social... | |
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...136. « Ibid., p. 30. « Ibid., p. «. i Ibid., p. 261. ways right." l " No love can be bound by o:ith or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No...only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope of them." 2 Our author admits that the law thus• enunciated confounds all established notions of... | |
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...emphasis is ali Essays, Vol. I., p. i36. n Ibid., p. 30. > Ibid., p. 44. 4 Ibid., p. 26i. ways right." ' " No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure...of new thoughts. People wish to be settled; only as for as they are unsettled is there any hope of them." 2 Our author admits that the law thus enunciated... | |
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pages
...is al1 Essays, Vol. I., p. 136. * Ibid., p. 30. a ibid., p. 44. « Ibid., p. 261. ways right." * " No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No trutli so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...ought not to creep on a human mind. In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten ; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is...by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher lave. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...ought not to creep on a human mind. In nature every moment is new ; the past is always swallowed and forgotten ; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is...love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it agaiust a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.... | |
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