Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... life but an endless flight of winged facts or events ? In splendid variety these changes come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time 32 HISTORY.
... life but an endless flight of winged facts or events ? In splendid variety these changes come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time 32 HISTORY.
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obe- dience to facts ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obe- dience to facts ...
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... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judg- ment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to ...
... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judg- ment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to ...
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... 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 . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not ...
... 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 . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not ...
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... wisdom , old things pass away , — means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one as much as another . All things are ...
... wisdom , old things pass away , — means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one as much as another . All things are ...
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