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" We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods love him because men hated him. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift. "
So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance - Page 33
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 pages
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...men hated him. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their...meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own templedoors, and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God. Every new...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...men hated him. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their...any man with us, and we will obey.' Everywhere I am hindered ofjneeting_God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect....Speak thou, speak any man with us and we will obey.' Every where I am bereaved of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...men hated him. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their...any man with us, and we will obey.' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...men hated him. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their...any man with us, and we will obey.' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...men hated him. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their...any man with us, and we will obey." Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...men hated him. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their...Israelites, ' Let not God speak to us, lest we die. Speak thptt, speak any man with us, and we will obey.' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother,...
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Radical: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Religion, Volume 5

1869 - 580 pages
...pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. • Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...men hated him. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their...any man with us, and we will obey.' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...men hated him. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their...any man with us, and we will obey.' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables...
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