The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing ...
... universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing ...
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... universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation . All its properties consist in him . Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to ...
... universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation . All its properties consist in him . Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to ...
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... universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express ...
... universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express ...
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... Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures , in the sacer- dotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude ...
... Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures , in the sacer- dotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude ...
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... Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures , in the sacer- dotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude ...
... Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures , in the sacer- dotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude ...
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Page 429 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. 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 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 55 - 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.
Page 47 - 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. The virtue in most request is conformity. Selfreliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
Page 94 - ... in the systole and diastole of the heart; in the undulations of fluids and of sound; in the centrifugal and centripetal gravity; in electricity, galvanism and chemical affinity. Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end. If the south attracts, the north repels. To empty here, you must condense there. An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter; man, woman;...
Page 65 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.
Page 46 - A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.
Page 74 - ... from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
Page 62 - The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, the essence of virtue, and the essence of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.
Page 316 - But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do...