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
| Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 244 pages
...graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, "Up and onward for ever more!" We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new; and so we walk evei with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards. And yet the compensations of calamity... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...beautiful 20 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...graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Al-25 mighty saith, "Up and onward forevermore !" We cannot stay amid the ruins'. Neither will we rely... | |
| Swami Paramananda - 1918 - 92 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...the Almighty saith, 'Up and onward for evermore!' " Man must rise; he must not grieve over his dead actions. He must go onward and forward, if he wishes... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, "Up and onward for evermore!" We cannot... | |
| Leonidas Warren Payne - 1917 - 734 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent where once we had bread 745 and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...evermore!' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we 750 rely on the new; and so we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards.... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 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 can not again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain.The voiceof the... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 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 can not again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sitandweep in vain.The voiceof the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...old tent where once we had bread nd shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, over, and nerve us again. We cannot again find aught so...dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vz The voice of the Almighty saith, 'Up and onward for ev more!' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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 with... | |
| 156 pages
...the remembered past. "We linger in the ruins of an old tent where we once had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover...onward for evermore!' We cannot stay amid the ruins." The compensations of calamity are made apparent over time. Our losses seem overwhelming and unredeemable... | |
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