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Ralph Waldo Emerson. ESSAY VII . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence , where- of I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing of means and methods ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. ESSAY VII . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence , where- of I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing of means and methods ...
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... prudence or law of shows rec- ognizes the co - presence of other laws , and knows that its own office is subaltern ; knows that it is sur- face and not centre where it works . Prudence is false when detached . It is legitimate when it ...
... prudence or law of shows rec- ognizes the co - presence of other laws , and knows that its own office is subaltern ; knows that it is sur- face and not centre where it works . Prudence is false when detached . It is legitimate when it ...
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... prudence , which is a devotion to matter , as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate , the nose , the touch , the eye and ear ; a pru- dence which adores the Rule of Three , which never subscribes , which never gives , which ...
... prudence , which is a devotion to matter , as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate , the nose , the touch , the eye and ear ; a pru- dence which adores the Rule of Three , which never subscribes , which never gives , which ...
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... prudence , making the senses final , is the god of sots and cowards , and is the subject of all comedy . It is nature's joke , and therefore litera- ture's . The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an ...
... prudence , making the senses final , is the god of sots and cowards , and is the subject of all comedy . It is nature's joke , and therefore litera- ture's . The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an ...
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