 We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in today to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where...  Complete Works - Page 121by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | 1905 - 600 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards." PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. By LDN The growth and development of our modern civilization may be considered... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 50 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent where 20 once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...saith, ' Up and onward for evermore ! ' We cannot stay 25 amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new ; and so we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, " Up and onward forevermore ! " We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the New; and so we walk ever... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, " Up and onward forevermore ! " We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the New ; and so we walk ever... | |
 | Marian Hurd McNeely, Jean Bingham Wilson - 1909 - 312 pages
...friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. ... We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. . . . The death of a dear . . . brother . . . breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household. . . . But . . .... | |
 | Katharine Hinchman Newcomb - 1909 - 314 pages
...and confidence in ourselves, power of service, gladness, contentment, joy. MOURNING. WE WEEP IN VAIN. "But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, 'Up and onward forevermore. ' " THE voice of the Almighty is our higher self speaking within. It is always encouraging... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins' of the old tent where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. 20 The voice of the Almighty saith, 'Up and onward for evermore ! ' We cannot stay amid the ruins.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and 1$ weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, " Up and onward f orevermore ! " We cannot stay amid... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 pages
...omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or re-create that beautiful yesterday. The voice of the Almighty saith, ' Up and onward for...amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the New. And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals... | |
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