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He acts it as life , before he apprehends it as truth . In like manner , nature is already , in its forms and tendencies , describing its own design . Let us interrogate the great apparition that shines so peacefully around Let us ...
He acts it as life , before he apprehends it as truth . In like manner , nature is already , in its forms and tendencies , describing its own design . Let us interrogate the great apparition that shines so peacefully around Let us ...
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In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal ...
In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal ...
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Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good .
Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good .
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Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life , wherein , as in a firmament , the natures of Justice , Truth , Love , Freedom , arise and shine . This universal soul he calls Reason : it is not mine ...
Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life , wherein , as in a firmament , the natures of Justice , Truth , Love , Freedom , arise and shine . This universal soul he calls Reason : it is not mine ...
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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol , and so to utter it , depends on the simplicity of his character , that is , upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss .
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol , and so to utter it , depends on the simplicity of his character , that is , upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss .
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| Title | Nature: Addresses, and Lectures Volume 1 of Riverside ed. Complete works |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 22 Oct 2013 |
| Length | 315 pages |
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