The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative menHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1903 |
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... true light and in large relations , whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error . His service to us is of like sort . It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes ...
... true light and in large relations , whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error . His service to us is of like sort . It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes ...
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... true artist has the planet for his pedestal ; the adventurer , after years of strife , has nothing broader than his own shoes . Our common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men . Direct giving is agreeable to ...
... true artist has the planet for his pedestal ; the adventurer , after years of strife , has nothing broader than his own shoes . Our common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men . Direct giving is agreeable to ...
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... true genius seeks to defend us from itself . True genius will not impoverish , but will liberate , and add new senses . ' If a wise man should appear in our village he would create , in those who conversed with him , a new consciousness ...
... true genius seeks to defend us from itself . True genius will not impoverish , but will liberate , and add new senses . ' If a wise man should appear in our village he would create , in those who conversed with him , a new consciousness ...
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... true art is only possible on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere . Fair play and an open field and freshest laurels to all who have won them ! But heaven reserves an equal - scope for every creature . Each is ...
... true art is only possible on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere . Fair play and an open field and freshest laurels to all who have won them ! But heaven reserves an equal - scope for every creature . Each is ...
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... true ascension in our love . The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism . The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals . We must infer much , and supply ...
... true ascension in our love . The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism . The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals . We must infer much , and supply ...
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Página 88 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Página 328 - Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon; She spired into a yellow flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; "Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am.
Página 210 - What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon?
Página 320 - But as all are of the same original stock, a golden parent will sometimes have a silver son, or a silver parent a golden son.
Página 365 - LITTLE thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from the hill-top looking down; The heifer that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton, tolling his bell at noon, Deems not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists with delight, Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
Página 349 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Página 14 - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
Página 339 - Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life.
Página 316 - The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, And fill the long reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine; And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey...
Página 305 - Henceforth I design not to utter any speech, poem or book that is not entirely and peculiarly my work. I will say at public lectures, and the like, those things which I have meditated for their own sake, and not for the first time with a view to that occasion.