The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... becoming , in some degree , himself divine . Like a new soul , they renew the body . We become physically nimble and lightsome ; we tread on air ; life is no longer irksome , and we think it will never . be so . No man fears age or ...
... becoming , in some degree , himself divine . Like a new soul , they renew the body . We become physically nimble and lightsome ; we tread on air ; life is no longer irksome , and we think it will never . be so . No man fears age or ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. ject to dollars . The priest becomes a form ; the attorney a statute - book ... become a mere thinker , or still worse , the parrot of other men's thinking . In this view of him , as Man Thinking ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. ject to dollars . The priest becomes a form ; the attorney a statute - book ... become a mere thinker , or still worse , the parrot of other men's thinking . In this view of him , as Man Thinking ...
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... becomes to him the measure of his attain- ments . So much of nature as he is ignorant of , so much of his own mind does ... become at last one maxim . II . The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past ...
... becomes to him the measure of his attain- ments . So much of nature as he is ignorant of , so much of his own mind does ... become at last one maxim . II . The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past ...
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