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" Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. "
The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 60
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pages
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Theory Now and Then

Joseph Hillis Miller - 1991 - 430 pages
...and knowledge of God beyond the cosmos" (Agon, 4). Bloom cites the Emerson of Self-Reliance on this: Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God...set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. . . . When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,...
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Religions and Cultures: First International Conference of Mediterraneum

Adriana Destro, Mauro Pesce - 2002 - 204 pages
...the apostles say this; but what canst thou say?" The third is by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance}: "See what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he speaks the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul". The fourth is from Marcel Proust:...
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Essays Series 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,...
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Compensation and Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, 01 Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children...
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Motivational Classics

Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,--painfully...
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Emerson: Political Writings

Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the ...

University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,...
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The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific ..., Volume 30

1900 - 700 pages
...significance: "A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse ; independent, irresponsible." "See what strong intellects dare not yet hear God...phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul." "He feels no shame in not studying a profession for he does not postpone his life, but lives already."...
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