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" Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes... "
Essays - Page 63
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pages
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...gulf; in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for, that forever degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty; all...present, there will be power not confident but agent. <I To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies, because...
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Readings from Great Authors

John Haynes Holmes, Harvey Dee Brown, Helen Edmunds Redding, Theodora Goldsmith - 1918 - 120 pages
...a few lives. The soul degrades the past; it turns riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame. It confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Ask not for the great or the remote. See to it only that thyself is here. God is one and omnipresent;...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty, all...not confident but agent. To talk of reliance is a I poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies because it works and is. Who has...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...With the rogue, shoves Jesus ana Juaas equally aside . i^^ty, thpr^ flft we prate oi sen-reliance c inasmuch as the [soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent. Wo talk ot rtllailHH is a boor external wav oi speaking. Sjfcak 'rather of that which 1*61163, beCat!5<JH...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all...Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate of selfeasy for the strong man to be strong, 50 reliance? Inasmuch as the soul is as it is for the weak...
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R.W. Emersons Naturauffassung und ihre philosophischen Ursprünge: eine ...

Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...Dualismus auf die ursprüngliche Tathandlung hin auf: Why then do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch äs the soul is present, there will be power not confident...rather of that which relies, because it works and is.11!) Charakteristisch für eine Vielzahl von Umschreibungen der paradoxen Struktur des Selbstbewußtseins...
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The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism

Cornel West - 1989 - 292 pages
...gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all...rather of that which relies, because it works and is.36 Of course, Emerson's nonconformist conception of self-reliance ("and so the reliance on Property,...
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Marguerite Young, Our Darling: Tributes and Essays

Miriam Fuchs - 1994 - 180 pages
...gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes: for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a sham, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Midwestern or not,...
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The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism

Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 pages
...when, in exasperation with his own title, Emerson asks, 'Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance? . . . To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking....rather of that which relies, because it works and is.' "" This self-consuming gesture is like the one in "Uses of Great Men" cited earlier, in which Emerson...
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Conservation Reconsidered: Nature, Virtue, and American Liberal Democracy

Charles T. Rubin - 2000 - 282 pages
...achieve the kind of life most in accord with our nature. The point comes out clearly in "Self-Reliance": Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. (27 1 ) Any established mode or way of life (better or worse), any culture, obscures the universal...
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