These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. Essays, First Series - Page 61by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Brodie Patterson - 1906 - 266 pages
...measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which can not help itself. * * * Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts;...satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. Man can not be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time." — EMERSON.... | |
| Edward Fulton - 1906 - 286 pages
...for him to take; but it was a step which, if he wished to hold what he had already won, he must take. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts;...is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. is without; he has his eyes ever about him; he has lively susceptibility of impressions; he imbibes... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...exist with God to-day. There is no 25 time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst,...its whole life acts ; in the full-blown flower there 1 A story invented to convey a moral. is no more ; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst,...satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted... | |
| 1909 - 540 pages
...exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst,...satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...God to-day. There is no time to, them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment 15 of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its...he does not live in the present, but with reverted 20 eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...them. There is simply the is rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf bud has burst, its whole life acts ; in the full-blown...or remembers ; he does not live in the present, but 20 with reverted2 eye. laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. 35 There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst,...satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 530 pages
...or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 pages
...they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst,...satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted... | |
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