 Thus in the soul of man there is a justice whose retributions are instant and entire. He who does a good deed is • instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted. He who puts off impurity, thereby puts on purity. If a...  Essays and English Traits - Page 27by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 493 pagesFull view - About this book
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...itself contracted. He who puts off impurity thereby puts on purity. If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality...himself, and goes out of acquaintance with his own being. Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone... | |
 | 1912 - 804 pages
...from Supreme Wisdom. He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God ; the safety of God, the immortality...majesty of God do enter into that man with justice. The dawn of the sentiment of virtue on the heart gives and is the assurance that Law is sovereign over... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1874 - 932 pages
...the greatest living artist in felicities of this kind — Emerson : " If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God ; the safety of God, the immortality...majesty of God, do enter into that man with justice." That sentence is startling, and few writers could have attempted to say any thing of the same kind... | |
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