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As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal ...
As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal ...
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely — but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature ...
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely — but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature ...
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No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the ...
No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the ...
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The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out , and we are become timorous , desponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid of fortune , afraid of death , and afraid of each other . yields no great and perfect persons .
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out , and we are become timorous , desponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid of fortune , afraid of death , and afraid of each other . yields no great and perfect persons .
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... people knew more than the preachers taught . The documents , too , from which the doctrine is to be drawn , charmed my fancy by their endless variety , and lay always before me , even in COMPENSATION.
... people knew more than the preachers taught . The documents , too , from which the doctrine is to be drawn , charmed my fancy by their endless variety , and lay always before me , even in COMPENSATION.
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| Title | Essays, Volume 1 Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume 6 of World's classics |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 354 pages |
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