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Essays: First series - Page 269
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pages
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...perception of identity. We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird are not theirs, have...party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets test, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 5-6

1858 - 588 pages
...Take which you please, you can never have both. Between those, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will abstain from dogmatism,...
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A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City, Volume 1

Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 674 pages
...for that and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure and thought is thereby augumented. . . . God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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The credentials of conscience: a few reasons for the popularity of [sir J.R ...

Maria Hall - 1868 - 410 pages
...mean the orthodoxy alluded to in " Ecce Homo " as " always easy for a thoughtless man to receive." " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please, you can never have both. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...of strangeness she may put on. He feels a strict consanguinity, and detects more likeness than w^ty in all her changes. We are stung by the desire for...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the tnrf, the bird are not theirs, have nothing of them : the...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...only the old thought with a new face, and though we make it our own, we instantly crave another ; \ve are not really enriched. For the truth was in us before...father's. He gets 'rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...For the truth was in us before it was reflected to us from natural objects ; and the profound genins will cast the likeness of all creatures into every...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.1 God offers to every mind its choice between truth...father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between trulh and repose. Take which you please, — you can never...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. ]!;, in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the...
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