 We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not...  Essays: First Series - Page 103by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in 15 to-day to rival or re-create that beautiful yesterday....so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. 20 The voice of the Almighty saith, 'Up and onward for evermore ! ' We cannot stay amid the ruins.... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pages
...idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to...once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe Jhat the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet,... | |
 | 1903 - 636 pages
...to let the "good" old days be supplanted by the untried new ones. We are all "idolaters of the old. We do not believe there is any force in today to rival or re-create that beautiful yesterday." Yet — "No truth so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 616 pages
...history ? only biography. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the omnipotence of the Soul : we do not believe there is any force in Today, to...yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent.* . . . In proper Eternity there are few believers, that is, in omnipresence and omnipotence, few. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 614 pages
...INFINITE AND FINITE 209 We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the omnipotence of the Soul: we do not believe there is any force in Today, to...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent.1 . . . In proper Eternity there are few believers, that is, in omnipresence and omnipotence,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 pages
...idolaters of the Old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or re-create that beautiful yesterday. The voice of the Almighty saith, ' Up and onward for evermore!' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. 10 We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or recreate l that beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 248 pages
...idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to...we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, "Up and onward for ever more!" We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or re-create that beautiful 20 yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent where once we had bread and shelter and organs,... | |
 | Swami Paramananda - 1918 - 92 pages
...again declares. "We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to...we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, 'Up and onward for evermore!' " Man must rise; he must not grieve over his dead actions. He... | |
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