 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, for that for ever degrades the past, turns...  Essays - Page 56by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1875 - 402 pages
...possible of man.' The air of complaint which overhangs these sentences change to rigor 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 reputation to a shame, confounds the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...mine, it is not wit" (i 53). With greater transcendental coarseness, he says on another occasion: " This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 486 pages
...present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...becomes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 pages
...present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...becomes; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and... | |
 | 1884 - 668 pages
...possible of man." The air of complaint which overhangs these sentences changes 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 reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 120 pages
...present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; x>r that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all •<utation to a shame, confounds... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...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... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1899 - 402 pages
...Education of Man. De Garmo's Herbart and the Herbartians. CHAPTER XV MISCELLANEOUS SUGGESTIONS " Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting of an aim." — EMERSON. ON looking over the notes which I have at various times made of my own experience... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...is called life, and what is called death. -m~it-mn C.Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...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... | |
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