 These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.  Essays: First Series - Page 75by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose...satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it it perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf -bud has burst, its whole life acts; in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose...satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose;...satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose;...satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but "with reverted eye laments the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are ; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence jt Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower, there is no more ; in... | |
 | Charles Brodie Patterson - 1906 - 266 pages
...measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which can not help itself. * * * Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts;...satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. Man can not be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time." — EMERSON.... | |
 | Edward Fulton - 1906 - 286 pages
...for him to take; but it was a step which, if he wished to hold what he had already won, he must take. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts;...is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. is without; he has his eyes ever about him; he has lively susceptibility of impressions; he imbibes... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no 25 time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect...its whole life acts ; in the full-blown flower there 1 A story invented to convey a moral. is no more ; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are, they exist with God to-day. There is no time to, them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment 15 of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts ; in the full-blown flower there... | |
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