Essays - First SeriesThe Floating Press, 2009 M01 1 - 314 pages American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement. Summing up his work, Emerson said that his primary principle was "the infinitude of the private man", and advised to "make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." His First Series collects together the following 12 essays: History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect and Art. |
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Page 53
... , or of some other person. Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else, it takes place of the whole creation. The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an 53.
... , or of some other person. Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else, it takes place of the whole creation. The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an 53.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design,—and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design,—and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and ...
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... cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom ... causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates ...
... cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom ... causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates ...
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... cause, and in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles disappear. If therefore a man claims to know and speak of God and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another ...
... cause, and in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles disappear. If therefore a man claims to know and speak of God and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another ...
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... Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms. All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain. Commerce, husbandry, hunting, whaling, war, eloquence, personal weight, are ...
... Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms. All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain. Commerce, husbandry, hunting, whaling, war, eloquence, personal weight, are ...
Contents
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39 | |
Compensation | 80 |
Spiritual Laws | 112 |
Love | 145 |
Friendship | 164 |
Prudence | 188 |
Heroism | 207 |
The OverSoul | 226 |
Circles | 254 |
Intellect | 274 |
Art | 295 |
Endnotes | 313 |
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