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Page 176
... expression ; but it is ne- cessary to write a letter to a friend , and , forthwith , troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves , on every hand , with chosen words . See , in any house where virtue and self - respect abide , the ...
... expression ; but it is ne- cessary to write a letter to a friend , and , forthwith , troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves , on every hand , with chosen words . See , in any house where virtue and self - respect abide , the ...
Page 278
... expression , to - morrow . What I write , whilst I write it , seems the most nat- ural thing in the world ; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much ; and a month hence , I doubt not , I shall ...
... expression , to - morrow . What I write , whilst I write it , seems the most nat- ural thing in the world ; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much ; and a month hence , I doubt not , I shall ...
Page 279
... ; now , you have found his shores , found it a pond , and you care not if you never see it again . Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts , as expressions of one law CIRCLES . 279.
... ; now , you have found his shores , found it a pond , and you care not if you never see it again . Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts , as expressions of one law CIRCLES . 279.
Page 280
Ralph Waldo Emerson. twenty seemingly discordant facts , as expressions of one law . Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the re- spective heads of two schools . A wise man will see . that Aristotle Platonizes . By going one step farther ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. twenty seemingly discordant facts , as expressions of one law . Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the re- spective heads of two schools . A wise man will see . that Aristotle Platonizes . By going one step farther ...
Page 286
... expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you . " Blessed be nothing , " and " the worse things are , the better they are , " are prov- erbs which express the transcendentalism of common life . # One man's justice is another's ...
... expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you . " Blessed be nothing , " and " the worse things are , the better they are , " are prov- erbs which express the transcendentalism of common life . # One man's justice is another's ...
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