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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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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...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...soul is present there will be power not confident but agent.1 To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies because...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 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...soul is present, there will be power not confident hut agent. To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies,...
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Lobb's theological quarterly (with which is incorporated ..., Volume 1

1884 - 668 pages
...to rigour in this : — This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that for evermore degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all...with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. These citations assume a certain superiority in their author over Christians and their Lord. No proof...
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The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Volume 11

James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 pages
...the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside." And this is the religion, this the morality practised by the school of "culture"! Such are the principles...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...trustworthy self, which speaks in us when we allow it hearing. Self-reliance is, therefore, self-abandonment. "To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking ; speak rather of that which relies." Let, then, the prompting of this self (which ^s«fjso the not-self) find utterance in speech and follo\^ng...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 406 pages
...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 ;...Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power :iot confident but agent. To talk of reliance, is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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...is present, there will be power not confident but agent.1 To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 pages
...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 ;...present, there will be power not confident but agent. Tp talk of reliance, is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of "that which relies, because...
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Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ...

1896 - 234 pages
...action. And it must act according to its own nature and constitution. The soul is power in action. " Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent." The more soul the more power. " Who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise...
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Essays. 1901

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...knowing that all things go well. Vast spaces of nature, the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea, — long intervals of time, years, centuries, — are of no...and Judas equally aside. Why, then, do we prate of self -reliance 1 Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent. To talk...
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