 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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...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. People wish to be setded: only as far as they are unsetded is there any hope for them. Life is a series of surprises.... | |
 | Paul Carus - 2004 - 548 pages
...discoveries and new interpretations at any moment. For some, this is unsettling. Yet as Emerson reminds us, People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. ("Circles," from Emerson's Essays) 2 ™ Ironically, because our received ways of "making sense" of... | |
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 | Will M. Tuttle - 2005 - 340 pages
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 | Jeffrey Cane Robinson - 2006 - 166 pages
...the 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...far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them ' And once again The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget outselves, to be surprised... | |
 | Jack Mendelsohn - 2006 - 220 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...light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled; only in so far as they are unsettled is there any hope." And then Emerson startles us with a conjecture... | |
 | H.A. Williams - 2006 - 188 pages
...from captivity to what we have been to the glorious liberty of our full true selves. As Emerson wrote: 'People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them?'1 Our divine discontent is the awakening of our awareness that we are free to travel. 1 Ralph... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 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. The natural world may be conceived of as a system of concentric circles, and we now and then detect... | |
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