Essays: First SeriesHenry Altemus, 1894 - 322 pages |
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. HISTORY . There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all : And where it cometh , all things are ; And it cometh everywhere . I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven.
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. HISTORY . There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all : And where it cometh , all things are ; And it cometh everywhere . I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven.
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... things . Human life as contain- ing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws de- rive hence their ultimate reason , all express at last reverence for some command of this supreme ...
... things . Human life as contain- ing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws de- rive hence their ultimate reason , all express at last reverence for some command of this supreme ...
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... things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History must be this or it is nothing . Every law which the state enacts , indicates a fact in human nature ; that is all . We must in our own nature see the necessary ...
... things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History must be this or it is nothing . Every law which the state enacts , indicates a fact in human nature ; that is all . We must in our own nature see the necessary ...
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... things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circumstance . Every chemical sub- stance , every plant , every animal in its growth ...
... things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circumstance . Every chemical sub- stance , every plant , every animal in its growth ...
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... things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form before it , but , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed altogether . Nothing is so fleeting as form . Yet never does it quite deny itself . In ...
... things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form before it , but , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed altogether . Nothing is so fleeting as form . Yet never does it quite deny itself . In ...
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Page 43 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Page 50 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 54 - Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Page 48 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this: the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Page 53 - It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid as being very vulnerable themselves. But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
Page 88 - POLARITY, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold ; in the ebb and flow of waters ; in male and female ; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals ; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the heart; in the undulations of fluids and of sound; in the centrifugal and centripetal gravity; in electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinity.
Page 53 - The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.
Page 76 - Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration.
Page 77 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe ; the equinox he knows as little ; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.
Page 67 - I shall endeavor to nourish my parents, to support my family, to be the chaste husband of one wife, — but these relations I must fill after a new and unprecedented way. I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you.