Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... me , that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward : a thought which poetry has cele- - brated in the dance of the fairies , which 16 ESSAY 1 .
... me , that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward : a thought which poetry has cele- - brated in the dance of the fairies , which 16 ESSAY 1 .
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... thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were ...
... thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were ...
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... thought by using the name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for and me . Tantalus means the impos- you sibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always 28 ...
... thought by using the name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for and me . Tantalus means the impos- you sibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always 28 ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. sibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. sibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. of man on man . A mind might ponder its thought for ages , and not gain so much self - knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. of man on man . A mind might ponder its thought for ages , and not gain so much self - knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an ...
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