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... brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty from father to son for a hun- dred years . When each comes forth from his mother's womb , the gate of gifts closes behind him . ' Let him value his hands and feet 10 CONDUCT OF LIFE.
... brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty from father to son for a hun- dred years . When each comes forth from his mother's womb , the gate of gifts closes behind him . ' Let him value his hands and feet 10 CONDUCT OF LIFE.
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... one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain , an architectural , a musical , or a philological knack ; some stray taste or talent for flowers , or chemistry , or pigments , or story- - - telling ; a good hand for drawing , FATE II.
... one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain , an architectural , a musical , or a philological knack ; some stray taste or talent for flowers , or chemistry , or pigments , or story- - - telling ; a good hand for drawing , FATE II.
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... brain , apt for the same vigor- ous computation and logic ; a mind parallel to the movement of the world . The Roman mile probably rested on a measure of a degree of the meridian . Mahometan and Chinese know what we know of leap - year ...
... brain , apt for the same vigor- ous computation and logic ; a mind parallel to the movement of the world . The Roman mile probably rested on a measure of a degree of the meridian . Mahometan and Chinese know what we know of leap - year ...
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... the spirit which composes and decomposes nature , here they are , side by side , god and devil , mind and matter , king and conspirator , belt and spasm , riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man 22 CONDUCT OF LIFE.
... the spirit which composes and decomposes nature , here they are , side by side , god and devil , mind and matter , king and conspirator , belt and spasm , riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man 22 CONDUCT OF LIFE.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man . Nor can he blink the freewill . To hazard the contradiction , -freedom is necessary . If you please to plant yourself on the side of Fate ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man . Nor can he blink the freewill . To hazard the contradiction , -freedom is necessary . If you please to plant yourself on the side of Fate ...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life Ralph Waldo Emerson Visualização completa - 1904 |
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Página 341 - 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 404 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Página 402 - As though to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And...
Página 394 - The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. He cannot be a naturalist, until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit. Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other. In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
Página 400 - We -lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Página 422 - Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
Página 388 - Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round ; In vain produced, all rays return ; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
Página 329 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Página 423 - Ruby wine is drunk by knaves, Sugar spends to fatten slaves, Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons; Thunder-clouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread, Lightning-knotted round his head; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
Página 408 - O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red, All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.