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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. "
The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, - Page 66
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pages
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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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 shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why,...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases 25 in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment...degrades the past ; turns all riches to poverty, all reputation 30 to a shame; confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside....
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English and Engineering

Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 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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Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, Volume 13

American Society for Psychical Research - 1919 - 672 pages
...be himself in his expressions, and he is not himself and therefore the expression is unnatural. (" 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.")...
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Studies in Spanish-American Literature

Isaac Goldberg - 1920 - 402 pages
...his suggestion: "This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes (the italics are Emerson's) ; for that forever 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." Allowing...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...underlie my present and will always all circumstances, 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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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...underlie my present, and will always all circumstance, 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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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 pages
...my present and will always all circumstances, and what vs called life and what is called death. lafe only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in...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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Foundations of Psychiatry [!]

William Alanson White - 1921 - 158 pages
...mechanisms, or better, action-systems ever in process of adjustment and adaptation. As Emerson2 puts it, " Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes." The two concepts individual and environment, far from being mutually exclusive, can only be considered...
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Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series, Volume 32

1921 - 162 pages
...mechanisms, or better, action-systems ever in process of adjustment and adaptation. As Emerson2 puts it, " Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...one fact the world hates ; that the soul becomes." r The two concepts individual and environment, far from being mutually exclusive, can only be considered...
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