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" No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled ; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. "
Every Day with Emerson - Page 73
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 99 pages
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...energising spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess to-day the mood, the pleasure, the power of to-morrow,...
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All's Right with the World

Charles Benjamin Newcomb - 1897 - 272 pages
...thrown out from its own cargo. 2O CHRISTIAN TRANSGRESSORS — THE DISEASE OF CONSERVATISM. No truth is so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in the light...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. — Emerson. PROGRESS is from the Latin "pro," meaning forward, and "gradi," to step. Retrogress is...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...energising spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess to-day the mood, the pleasure, the power of to-morrow,...
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Voices of Freedom and Studies in the Philosophy of Individuality

Horatio Willis Dresser - 1899 - 240 pages
...advance shall lay the foundations of a yet richer transition to follow. CHAPTER II THE NEW THOUGHT No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. — EMERSON. IT is sometimes difficult to justify the terms in which a new sect formulates its message...
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The Victory of the Will

Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 pages
...permanent save spiritual energy, and that is continually advancing and conquering new territory. " No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts," says Emerson. " People wish to be settled ; but only so far vu Introduction as they are unsettled is...
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Metaphysical Magazine: A Monthly Review of the Occult Sciences ..., Volume 15

1901 - 526 pages
...energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts." We cannot, therefore, attain to the concept of right by the observation of things that are changing...
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The Writings of John Burroughs: Literary values and other papers

John Burroughs - 1902 - 290 pages
...The past was discredited the moment it became the past. " The coming only is sacred," he said ; " no truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts." As a writer, he sought to make all the old thoughts appear trivial in the light of his audacious affirmations....
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Literary Values

John Burroughs - 1902 - 288 pages
...The past was discredited the moment it became the past. " The coming only is sacred," he said ; " no truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts." As a writer, he sought to make all the old thoughts appear trivial in the light of his audacious affirmations....
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 464 pages
...energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess to-day the mood, the pleasure, the power of tomorrow,...
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Man and the Divine Order: Essays in the Philosophy of Religion and in ...

Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
...at my back. . . . Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energising spirit. . . . No truth is so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. These are the statements of one who saw the magnitude of the philosophic task. He declared life to...
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