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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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Conservation Reconsidered: Nature, Virtue, and American Liberal Democracy

Charles T. Rubin - 2000 - 282 pages
...achieve the kind of life most in accord with our nature. The point comes out clearly in "Self-Reliance": Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...fact 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...
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A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 pages
...openness to and influx of truth, which is, after all, the purpose of solitude, reflection, and integrity: Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; . . . Why then do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not...
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Raindrops in the Dust; Dreams, Memories and Reflections

Edward V. Tuttle - 2000 - 214 pages
...to begin yet again. Emerson wrote, "Life only avails, not the having lived, " and in the same essay, "Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides...the moment of transition from a past to a new state. " If your life has become one of too much repose and not enough power, if you think you are too old...
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Modern Irish Poetry: A New Alhambra

Frank Sewell - 2001 - 250 pages
...well-travelled twig riding the back of the stream? Emerson opted for endless, energizing, zigzagging flux: 'power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a 5 OTuama, 'Three Lyrics I Like' (1990), Repossessions, 267-73 (p. 2<58). 6 Kristeva, for example, concluded...
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The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo

Tony Tanner - 2000 - 276 pages
...transition, the energizing spirit' ('Circles').12 Mason and Dixon are at their work exactly when America was 'in the moment of transition from a past to a new state', and living 'ever in a Ubiquity of Flow, before a ceaseless Spectacle of Transition'; they are, willy-nilly,...
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Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism

Robert Gooding-Williams - 2001 - 444 pages
...he is inexhaustible, and can be always new. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Conversations with Eckermann 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. RALPH...
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Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and ...

Steven Meyer - 2001 - 486 pages
...precisely because, as he had suggested a few sentences earlier in what are among his most famous lines, "life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting of an aim" (p. 271). To name the self is to kill it off, deactivate it, put it to rest; and one might...
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William James's "Springs of Delight": The Return to Life

Phil Oliver - 2001 - 296 pages
...applauds "the fact . . . that the soul becomes," and in a very Jamesian spirit he observes that "power resides in the moment of transition from a past to...state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting of an aim."14 James's "transcendence" is an experience that heightens a person's awareness and feelings...
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-made Man

Garry Wills - 2002 - 644 pages
...Luck comes to many, but only pluck turns luck into a molder of character. It is the code of Emerson: "Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose." Andrew Carnegie thought no men should inherit money. We should all start equal, so the man of worth...
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Emerson and Self-reliance

George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...experienced) unless one thinks about it afterwards. In sum, when Emerson says in "Self-Reliance" that "life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose" (p. 217), his work as a whole says that only the having lived avails; confusion and meaninglessness...
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