Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 |
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... hears the commendation , not of him- self , but , more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circumstance , in the running river and the rustling corn ...
... hears the commendation , not of him- self , but , more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circumstance , in the running river and the rustling corn ...
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... Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Cau- casian man , these creatures ...
... Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Cau- casian man , these creatures ...
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... hears an admonition in such lines , let the subject be what it may . sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is ...
... hears an admonition in such lines , let the subject be what it may . sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is ...
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... hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company , in which the mem- bers agree ...
... hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company , in which the mem- bers agree ...
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... man must consider what a blindman's - buff is this game of conformity . If I know your sect I anticipate your argument . I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the ex- • 7 pediency of one of the institutions of his church .
... man must consider what a blindman's - buff is this game of conformity . If I know your sect I anticipate your argument . I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the ex- • 7 pediency of one of the institutions of his church .
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Página 52 - Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Página 52 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Página 334 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Página 318 - ... the laws of its influx. Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both.
Página 54 - ... philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, and the thousandfold relief societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes...
Página 252 - The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
Página 55 - What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Página 252 - The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest as " : the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; ithat Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's -particular being is contained and made one with all other...
Página 55 - ... they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - x The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
Página 47 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.