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" Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. "
Every Day with Emerson - Page 13
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 99 pages
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Shelburne Essays

Paul Elmer More - 1904 - 272 pages
...train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be manycoloured lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its own focus. It is characteristic of Emerson's fine integrity that he never sought — as all systematic...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...and casual. Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods 10 like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus....
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Biennial Report of the State Superintendent of Public Education to the ...

Louisiana. Department of Education - 1904 - 548 pages
...original author?" Point out the clauses in this sentence, and show their kind and relation. 3-4. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as wo pass through, them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world Uieir own hue, and...
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The Metaphysical Magazine, Volumes 18-19

1905 - 778 pages
...the tides.—Charles H. Parkhurst. Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus....
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The Will to be Well

Charles Brodie Patterson - 1906 - 266 pages
...can do all things; for no ideal can enter His mind to which He can not give expression. "Life it 6 train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world in their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus....
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A Dictionary of Similes

Frank Jenners Wilstach - 1916 - 540 pages
...much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it. — GEORGE ELIOT. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus....
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...each other are oblique and casual. Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus....
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The Dynamic Power of the Inner Mind: An Outline of Practical Psychology

Brian Brown - 1924 - 356 pages
...head, but you may prevent them from stopping to build their nests there." — From the Chinese. "Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-coloured lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus....
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Pierre Key's Music Year Book: The Standard Music Annual

1926 - 528 pages
...Steinway Hall. SOPHIE BRASLAU IIFE, said Emerson, is "a train of moods, J t like a string of pearls, as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses which paint their own world, and each shows only what lies in its focus." Alfred Stevens' definition of art is...
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Pursuing Melville, 1940-1980: Chapters and Essays

Merton M. Sealts, Professor Merton M Sealts, Jr. - 1982 - 446 pages
...is a train of moods like a string of beads": as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. . . . We animate what we can, and we see only what we animate. Nature and books belong to the eyes...
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