 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 63by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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 self -reliance? Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent. To talk... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame,confounds the saint with the rogue,shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate...but agent.' To talk of reliance is a poor external *ay of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies because it works and is. Who has more obedience... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pages
...past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame,confounds the saint with the rogue,shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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...reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue,shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 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 reputation to a shame,confounds the saint with the rogue,shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 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 but agent.31 To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies... | |
 | 1906 - 418 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...with the rogue; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. — Emerson. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...as. 2 The way that leads to solitude, not to imitation. 3 Grows, passes into a new state of being. degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all...of self-reliance? Inasmuch as the soul is present 5 there will be power not confident l but agent.2 To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 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...confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas0 equally aside. Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch as the soul is present, there... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...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...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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