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" They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought to all nature and all art, and persuade men by the cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck,... "
History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar - Page 171
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 180 pages
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A Year with Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...the harvest. The great man makes the great thing. . . . The day is always his who works in it with serenity and great aims. The unstable estimates of...
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Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic "light of All ...

Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 555 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, that this diing which they do, is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck, now at last ripe, and inviting...
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A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens

Eleanor Cook - 2007 - 384 pages
...identifies someone as current head of a Scottish clan, here the clan MacCullough; note also Emerson, "The great man makes the great thing. Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table" ("The American Scholar" III, para. 14, LOA ed., 65-66) — or "lies" rather than sits, for the MacCullough....
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Emerson: Political Writings

Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table. Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman;...
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