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" I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. lie is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. 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. "
Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed - Page 67
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...he is no longer upright ; he dares not say "I think," " I am," but quotes some saint or 10 sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing...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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Report of the ... Meeting of the National Conference of ..., Volumes 23-27

1910 - 1250 pages
...that man "cannot be happy and strong until he, too, lives with nature, in the preseiit above time." "These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time in them." But...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...is no longer upright ; he i« dares not say " I think,'* " I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing...to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the is rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf bud has burst, its whole life...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...he is no longer upright; he 30 dares not say " I think," " I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing...they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There...
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The Musical Quarterly, Volume 12

Oscar George Sonneck - 1926 - 698 pages
...MUSICAL QUARTERLY VOL. XII JULY, 1926 NO. 3 ARTISTIC IDEALS1 II. SPONTANEITY By DANIEL GREGORY MASON "These roses under my window make no reference to...are for what they are; they exist with God to-day." — Emerton. AI academic and over-conscientious friend of Renoir's once reproached him with being the...
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English and Engineering

Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 pages
...; he is no longer upright ; he dares not say ' I think,' ' I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing...perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf -bud has burst, its whole life acts ; in the full-blown flower there is no more ; in the leafless...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...apologetic. He is no longer upright. He dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing...rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence J" Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 592 pages
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say, "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing...perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf -bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more ; in the leafless...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...under my window make no reference to ormer roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; :hey exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There...perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf -bud has burst, its whole life acts; n the full-blown flower there is no more ; in the leafless...
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