| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...omitted. Page 333, note I. "Day creeps after day, each full of facts, dull, strange despised things. . . . And presently the aroused intellect finds gold and...in one of these scorned facts, — then finds that a day of facts is a rock of diamonds ; that a fact is an Epiphany of God." — " Education," Lectures... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 484 pages
...and desert. The time we seek to kill : the attention it is elegant to divert from things around us. And presently the aroused intellect finds gold and...rock of diamonds ; that a fact is an Epiphany of God. We have our theory of life, our religion, our philosophy; and the event of each moment, the shower,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 400 pages
...and desert. The time we seek to kill : the attention it is elegant to divert from things around us. And presently the aroused intellect finds gold and...rock of diamonds ; that a fact is an Epiphany of God. We have our theory of life, our religion, our philosophy ; and the event of each moment, the shower,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 478 pages
...and desert. The time we seek to kill : the attention it is elegant to divert from things around us. And presently the aroused intellect finds gold and...rock of diamonds ; that a fact is an Epiphany of God. We have our theory of life, our religion, our philosophy; and the event of each moment, the shower,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...and desert. The time we seek to kill: the attention it is elegant to divert from things around us. And presently the aroused intellect finds gold and...rock of diamonds; that a fact is an Epiphany of God. We have our theory of life, our religion, our philosophy; and the event of each moment, the shower,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 pages
...and desert. The time we seek to kill : the attention it is elegant to divert from things around us. And presently the aroused intellect finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts, — then fmds that the day of facts is a rock of diamonds ; that a fact is an Epiphany of God. We have our theory... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 636 pages
...and desert. The time we seek to kill : the attention it is elegant to divert from things around us. And presently the aroused intellect finds gold and...a rock of diamonds; that a fact is an Epiphany of God.2 We have our theory of life, our religion, our philosophy ; and the event of each moment, the... | |
| Courtlandt Palmer - 1885 - 28 pages
...despised things, that we cannot, at first, enough despise — which we call heavy, prosaic and desert .... and presently the aroused intellect finds gold and...of diamonds — that a fact is an Epiphany of God." The Bible well says: "As a man thinketh, sois he." If he thinks truth, he is apt to become truthful.... | |
| Courtlandt Palmer - 1885 - 28 pages
...despised things, that we cannot, at first, enough despise—which we call heavy, prosaic and desert .... and presently the aroused intellect finds gold and...facts; then finds that the day of facts is a rock of diamonds—that a fact is an Epiphany of God." The Bible well says: "As a man thinketh, so is he."... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 530 pages
...after day, each full of (acts, dull, strange, despised things that we cannot enough despise. . . . And presently the aroused intellect finds gold and...of diamonds ; that a fact is an Epiphany of God." — "Education," Lectures and Biographical Sketches. Page I42, note I. The same thoughts in " The Sphinx,"... | |
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