 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...present,jmd what is called life and what is called death. ~ Life only avails, not the having liveek Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides...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 - 648 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life, and what is called death. bly and truly. It is alike your interest, and mine,...harsh to-day ? You will soon love what is dictated for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 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...aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becemes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 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... | |
 | 1884 - 668 pages
...possible of man." The air of complaint which overhangs these sentences changes to rigour 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... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 pages
...virtues are comprehended." (Humility used to be looked upon as the foundation of " all the virtues.") " This one fact the world hates : that the soul becomes;...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside." And... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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...the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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 - 1894 - 334 pages
...what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power seases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment...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.... | |
 | 1896 - 234 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. 
