The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 10Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 - 461 pages |
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... of his condition , should learn in some moment the tough limitations of this fettering organization . ' It was in this glance that Ovid got the hint of his metamorphoses ; Calidasa of his transmi- gration of souls 6 DEMONOLOGY.
... of his condition , should learn in some moment the tough limitations of this fettering organization . ' It was in this glance that Ovid got the hint of his metamorphoses ; Calidasa of his transmi- gration of souls 6 DEMONOLOGY.
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... souls . For these fables are our own thoughts carried out . ' What keeps those wild tales in circulation for thousands of years ? What but the wild fact to which they suggest some approximation of theory ? Nor is the fact quite solitary ...
... souls . For these fables are our own thoughts carried out . ' What keeps those wild tales in circulation for thousands of years ? What but the wild fact to which they suggest some approximation of theory ? Nor is the fact quite solitary ...
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... soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it , for the event is only the ac- tualizing of its thoughts . It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic . The fallacy ...
... soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it , for the event is only the ac- tualizing of its thoughts . It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic . The fallacy ...
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... soul and to all time . Indeed , all productions of man are so anthropomorphous that not possibly can he invent any fable that shall not have a deep moral and be true in senses and to an extent never intended by the inventor . Thus all ...
... soul and to all time . Indeed , all productions of man are so anthropomorphous that not possibly can he invent any fable that shall not have a deep moral and be true in senses and to an extent never intended by the inventor . Thus all ...
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... soul , but interfere and thwart the instructions of their own minds . ' - - Coincidences , dreams , animal magnetism , omens , sacred lots , have great interest for some minds . They run into this twilight and say , " There's more than ...
... soul , but interfere and thwart the instructions of their own minds . ' - - Coincidences , dreams , animal magnetism , omens , sacred lots , have great interest for some minds . They run into this twilight and say , " There's more than ...
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Page 95 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 512 - O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died...
Page 541 - When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
Page 548 - Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
Page 474 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
Page 541 - He spoke of miracles ; for he felt that man's life was a miracle, and all that man doth, and he knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends. But the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression ; it is Monster.
Page 511 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 599 - Folk say, a wizard to a northern king, At Christmas-tide such wondrous things did show, That through one window men beheld the spring, And through another saw the summer glow, And through a third the fruited vines arow, While still, unheard, but in its wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day.
Page 469 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before ; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Page 96 - ... to lay down his life for the sake of a truth, or in the cause of his country, or to save his son or his friend. And under the action of this sentiment of the Right, his heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.