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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual
experience. There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of
time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the
light on ...
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual
experience. There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of
time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the
light on ...
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Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage, or
has heard an eloquent tongue, or has shared the throb of thousands in a national
exultation or alarm 2 No man can antedate his experience, or guess what ...
Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage, or
has heard an eloquent tongue, or has shared the throb of thousands in a national
exultation or alarm 2 No man can antedate his experience, or guess what ...
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But here is a strange fact; it may seem to many men, in revising their experience,
that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of
some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft surpassing the
deep ...
But here is a strange fact; it may seem to many men, in revising their experience,
that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of
some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft surpassing the
deep ...
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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint
those qualities which we do not possess. The poet admires the man of energy
and tactics; the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar; and where a
man ...
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint
those qualities which we do not possess. The poet admires the man of energy
and tactics; the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar; and where a
man ...
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... there a depth in those brief moments, which constrains us to ascribe more
reality to them than to all other experiences. ... silence those who conceive
extraordinary hopes of man, namely, the appeal to experience, is forever invalid
and vain.
... there a depth in those brief moments, which constrains us to ascribe more
reality to them than to all other experiences. ... silence those who conceive
extraordinary hopes of man, namely, the appeal to experience, is forever invalid
and vain.
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Página 43 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Página 54 - 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.
Página 86 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe ; the equinox he knows as little ; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.
Página 57 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Página 63 - Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work; but the things of life are the same to both; the sum total of both is the same. Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue? As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed their public and renowned steps.
Página 69 - When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
Página 49 - ... interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this.
Página 49 - The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
Página 45 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Página 125 - ... seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and of no settled character, in which the man is imprisoned. Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday. And such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.
Informações bibliográficas
| Título | Essays |
| Autor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Thomas Carlyle |
| Colaborador | Thomas Carlyle |
| Editora | James Fraser, 1841 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 22 mar. 2008 |
| Num. págs. | 371 páginas |
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