 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 73by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 99 pagesFull view - About this book
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...nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred... People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Ralph Waldo Emerson Before trying to discuss the literary work of Thoreau - and what I consider the... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - 1999 - 330 pages
...a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may not be trivial tomorrow in the light of new thought. People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."69 If there is no permanence, then we cannot expect to find examples of truth as permanence.... | |
 | Laurence G. Boldt - 1999 - 708 pages
...stores, office supply stores, grocery stores, barbershops, restaurants, and locally-owned dePeople wish to be settled. Only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Emerson partment stores have been replaced by large superstores, factory outlets, or franchise chain... | |
 | Morris Berman - 2000 - 376 pages
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 | Richard Schacht - 2001 - 292 pages
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...the coming only is sacred. Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. . . . No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. "Life," Emerson says, "is a series of surprises." The routines of daily life are predictable enough,... | |
 | Stuart E. Rosenbaum - 2003 - 338 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 today the mood, the pleasure, the power of tomorrow,... | |
 | Susan McCabe - 2010 - 297 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. (413) This grand essay closes with the dictum: "The one thing we seek with insatiable desire is to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 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 tomorrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. —CIRCLES Do you "grizzle" a little each day? How do you overcome the inertia of old age? 'Tis the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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 to-morrow,... | |
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