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... our religion . " Let men , true to their natures , cultivate the moral affections , lead manly and independent lives ; let them make riches the means and not the end of existence , and we shall hear no 8 [ 1837 , YEARS OF DISCIPLINE .
... our religion . " Let men , true to their natures , cultivate the moral affections , lead manly and independent lives ; let them make riches the means and not the end of existence , and we shall hear no 8 [ 1837 , YEARS OF DISCIPLINE .
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... hear no more of the commercial spirit . The sea will not stag- nate , the earth will be as green as ever , and the air as pure . This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient ; more beautiful than it is ...
... hear no more of the commercial spirit . The sea will not stag- nate , the earth will be as green as ever , and the air as pure . This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient ; more beautiful than it is ...
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... hear that you are comfortably located , in your native town , as the guardian of its children , in the immediate vicinity , I suppose , of one of our most distinguished apostles of the future , R. W. Emerson , and situated under the ...
... hear that you are comfortably located , in your native town , as the guardian of its children , in the immediate vicinity , I suppose , of one of our most distinguished apostles of the future , R. W. Emerson , and situated under the ...
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... hear the bluebird's song . So shalt thou , in the land of spirits , not only find good hunting grounds and sharp arrow- heads , but much music of birds . * 1 Brother : I have been thinking how the Pale Faces have taken away our lands ...
... hear the bluebird's song . So shalt thou , in the land of spirits , not only find good hunting grounds and sharp arrow- heads , but much music of birds . * 1 Brother : I have been thinking how the Pale Faces have taken away our lands ...
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... Dost thou un- derstand the long talk of the Medicine whose words are like the music of the mocking - bird ? But our chiefs have not ears to hear him ; they listen like squaws to the council of old men , 16 [ 1837 , YEARS OF DISCIPLINE .
... Dost thou un- derstand the long talk of the Medicine whose words are like the music of the mocking - bird ? But our chiefs have not ears to hear him ; they listen like squaws to the council of old men , 16 [ 1837 , YEARS OF DISCIPLINE .
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Página 209 - whose every faculty, from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head, obeys the law of its level; who neither stoops nor goes on tiptoe, but lives a balanced life, acceptable to nature and to God.
Página 332 - the plain, a sermon on the mount, or a very private ecstasy still higher up. We are not the less to aim at the summits, though the multitude does not ascend them. Use all the society that will abet you. But perhaps I do not enter into the spirit of your talk.
Página 244 - disgust me. O, I hate thee with a hate That would fain annihilate ; Yet, sometimes, against my will, My dear Friend, I love thee still. It were treason to our love, And a sin to God above, One iota to abate Of a pure, impartial hate.
Página 331 - in my way. It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner till there is none at all. It is either the Tribune
Página 293 - only positive and fruitful ones. Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearer neighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.
Página 219 - joy. When they tasted of the water of the river over which they were to go, they thought it tasted a little bitterish to the palate, but it proved sweeter when it was down.
Página 212 - it did not make much odds what kind of a sound I made. But the gods do not hear any rude or discordant sound, as we learn from the echo ; and I know that the nature toward which I launch these sounds is so rich that it will modulate anew and wonderfully improve my rudest strain.
Página 371 - justice is always done. If our merchants did not most of them fail, and the banks too, my faith in the old laws of the world would be staggered. The statement that ninety-six in a hundred doing such business surely break down is perhaps the sweetest fact that statistics have revealed, — exhilarating as the fragrance of sallows in spring.