...circle of stiff curled black hair, had the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. 38. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. 39. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. 40. You seem to me as Dian in her...

...156 — To escape criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing .50 .25 157 — To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...those heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in...

...phrasing memorable detached thoughts is well illustrated in such passages as these: To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and...

...to all the members. America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous. — EMANCIPATION ADDRESS * 1 am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody...if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. — NATURE * L/ove, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides...

...and folding about herself anew.1 — William James, A Pluralistic Universe. 2 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...from those heavenly worlds will separate between him 1 Reprinted \vith the permission of Mr. Henry James and of Longmans, Green & Co. and what he touches....

...and folding about herself anew.1 — William James, A Pluralistic Universe. 2 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...from those heavenly worlds will separate between him 1 Reprinted with the permission of Mr. Henry James and of Longmans, Green & Co, and what he touches....

...thought he sounded conceited at first, but now I think the opposite. I like that bit about the stars — 'if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.' I always look at the stars when I am undressing at nights, and wishing I was alone. I like, too, to...

...illustration. This is the first paragraph of the work that first gained him fame: To go into solitude a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere had been made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence...

...old, with a small, not popular, pamphlet called Nature, which stated succinctly in its third sentence: "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars." This early individual man of Emerson's is a man alone, apart from his friends and even from his own...

...of sessions in the classroom. So I propose a makeshift. Near the start of the essay, Emerson writes: "If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars." Then he continues: The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what...