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A lamb is innocence ; a snake is subtle spite ; flowers express to us the delicate affections . Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance ; and heat for love . Visible distance behind and before us ...
A lamb is innocence ; a snake is subtle spite ; flowers express to us the delicate affections . Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance ; and heat for love . Visible distance behind and before us ...
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Learn that none of these things is superficial , but that each phenomenon has its roots in the faculties and affections of the mind . Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect , nature brings it in the concrete to be solved ...
Learn that none of these things is superficial , but that each phenomenon has its roots in the faculties and affections of the mind . Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect , nature brings it in the concrete to be solved ...
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Our affections as yet circulate through it . We no more feel or know it than we feel the feet , or the hand , or the brain of our body . The new deed is yet a part of life , remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life .
Our affections as yet circulate through it . We no more feel or know it than we feel the feet , or the hand , or the brain of our body . The new deed is yet a part of life , remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life .
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| Title | The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1 The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Contributor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2007 |
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