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In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word
in both senses, – in its common and in its philosophical import. In inquiries so
general as our present one, the inaccuracy is not material; no confusion of
thought ...
In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word
in both senses, – in its common and in its philosophical import. In inquiries so
general as our present one, the inaccuracy is not material; no confusion of
thought ...
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Crossing a bare common, in Snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,
without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have
enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a
man ...
Crossing a bare common, in Snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,
without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have
enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a
man ...
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And in common life, whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and
happy genius will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him, -
the persons, the opinions, and the day, and nature became ancillary to a man. 3.
And in common life, whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and
happy genius will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him, -
the persons, the opinions, and the day, and nature became ancillary to a man. 3.
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A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on
the mind. What is common to them all, - that perfectness and harmony, is beauty.
The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, – the totality of nature;
...
A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on
the mind. What is common to them all, - that perfectness and harmony, is beauty.
The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, – the totality of nature;
...
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Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care
with which its tuition is provided, - a care pretermitted in no single case. What
tedious training, day after day, year after year, never ending, to form the common
sense ...
Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care
with which its tuition is provided, - a care pretermitted in no single case. What
tedious training, day after day, year after year, never ending, to form the common
sense ...
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Página 45 - into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce,
Página 61 - 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. Patience,— patience
Página 397 - 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. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose
Página 241 - thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. 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,
Página 241 - 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
Página 40 - kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation. It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. What is a day *? What is a year
Página 354 - And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible, and affirms itself no mortal, but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being. THE OVER-SOUL. " But souls that of his own good life partake, He loves as his own self; dear as his
Página 27 - woman, house and trade. In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, 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 243 - everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one' of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Página 30 - And^ as the morning steals upon the night, The charm dissolves apace, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. Begins to swell : and the approaching tide
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| Título | The Prose Works of Ral[h Waldo Emerson |
| Autor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publicado | 1870 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 17 fev. 2006 |
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