 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...circumstances, as it does underlie iny present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why,... | |
 | 1875 - 402 pages
...possible of man.' The air of complaint which overhangs these sentences change to rigor in this : — This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for evermore •degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds... | |
 | 1875 - 714 pages
...possible of man." The air of complaint which overhangs these sentences changes to rigor in this : — This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for evermore degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hales, that the soul becomes ; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why... | |
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. 
