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. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 123by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...no more ; in the leafless root, there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...but quotes^ some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...no more ; in the leafless root, there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. There Ts "ncTlime to it. But... | |
| 1848 - 614 pages
...am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...There is no time to them. There is simply the rose, — perfect in every moment of its existence. But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a Jeaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts ; in the full-blown flower there is no more ; in the leafless... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...no more ; in the leafless root, there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...is no more; in the leafless root, there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But... | |
| Charles Chauncey Burr - 1848 - 380 pages
...what one will think and another will say if he employs such and such an expression. Emerson says : the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence....is no more ; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But... | |
| 1848 - 636 pages
...am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...There is no time to them. There is simply the rose — perfect in every moment of its existence. But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...There is no time to them. There is simply the rose, — perfect in every moment of its existence. But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...no more ; in the leafless root, there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But... | |
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