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Page 82
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Man's the elm , and Wealth the vine ; Stanch and strong the tendrils twine : Though the frail ringlets thee deceive , None from its stock that vine can reave . Fear not , then , thou child infirm , There's no god ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Man's the elm , and Wealth the vine ; Stanch and strong the tendrils twine : Though the frail ringlets thee deceive , None from its stock that vine can reave . Fear not , then , thou child infirm , There's no god ...
Page 113
... man's rejected hours , Builds therewith eternal towers ; Sole and self - commanded works , Fears not undermining days , Grows by decays , And , by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil , Makes flame to freeze , and ice to ...
... man's rejected hours , Builds therewith eternal towers ; Sole and self - commanded works , Fears not undermining days , Grows by decays , And , by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil , Makes flame to freeze , and ice to ...
Page 118
... man , - never darkened across any man's road , who did not go out of his way to seek them . These are the soul's mumps , and measles , and whooping - coughs , and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe ...
... man , - never darkened across any man's road , who did not go out of his way to seek them . These are the soul's mumps , and measles , and whooping - coughs , and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe ...
Page 123
... man and all animals is a falling forward . All our manual labor and works of strength , as prying , splitting ... man's wisdom by his hope , knowing that the perception of the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth . The ...
... man and all animals is a falling forward . All our manual labor and works of strength , as prying , splitting ... man's wisdom by his hope , knowing that the perception of the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth . The ...
Page 128
... man can do may be divinely done . We think greatness entailed or organized in some places or duties , in certain offices or occasions ... man's genius , the quality that differences him from every other , the susceptibility 128 ESSAY IV .
... man can do may be divinely done . We think greatness entailed or organized in some places or duties , in certain offices or occasions ... man's genius , the quality that differences him from every other , the susceptibility 128 ESSAY IV .
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