 God screens us evermore from premature ideas. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.  Essays, First Series - Page 160by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
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...are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives 127 when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream. ^i^Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted... | |
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
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 | 1904 - 712 pages
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 | 1905 - 600 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
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 | Shirley Brice - 1906 - 404 pages
...eyes are holden, and we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened. Then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream." — Emerson. ON the day after this conversation, Allison Grant walked across the fields to Laurel Bank.... | |
 | 1907 - 850 pages
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