The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is ...
... experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is ...
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... experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illus- tration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has a meaning for ...
... experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illus- tration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has a meaning for ...
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... and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . - We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and L verifying them here . All history becomes sub- jective ; HISTORY 9.
... and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . - We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and L verifying them here . All history becomes sub- jective ; HISTORY 9.
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... experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and con- verting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods ...
... experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and con- verting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods ...
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... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sen- timent of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to ...
... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sen- timent of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to ...
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Page 401 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 405 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
Page 50 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
Page 389 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Page 64 - The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
Page 381 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Page 417 - Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 47 - A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events.
Page 271 - God comes to see us without bell :" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God.
Page 269 - Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.