Essays, orations and lecturesW. Tegg & Company, 1848 - 385 páginas |
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... man his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise man . All books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which the wise man finds HISTORY . 3.
... man his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise man . All books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which the wise man finds HISTORY . 3.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. conversation , are portraits in which the wise man finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him , and accost him , and he is stimulated wher- ever he moves , as by personal allusions . A ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. conversation , are portraits in which the wise man finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him , and accost him , and he is stimulated wher- ever he moves , as by personal allusions . A ...
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... to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The SELF - RELIANCE .
... to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The SELF - RELIANCE .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurping wilfulness , grow tight about the outline of the face , and make the most disagreeable sensation ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurping wilfulness , grow tight about the outline of the face , and make the most disagreeable sensation ...
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... conversation and growth . The poise of a planet , the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind , the vital resources of every vegetable and animal , are also demonstrations of the self - sufficing , and there- fore self ...
... conversation and growth . The poise of a planet , the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind , the vital resources of every vegetable and animal , are also demonstrations of the self - sufficing , and there- fore self ...
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Página 32 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Página 26 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.
Página 27 - Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Página 33 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Página 156 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Página 69 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Página 1 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 28 - ... what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul...
Página 60 - The mind now thinks, now acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness — he has always the resource to live.
Página 30 - 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.