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... believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds , the order of things can satisfy . Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put . He acts it as life , before he ...
... believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds , the order of things can satisfy . Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put . He acts it as life , before he ...
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... believe and adore ; and preserve for many generations the remem- brance of the city of God which had been shown ! But every night come out these envoys of beauty , and light the universe with their admonishing smile . The stars awaken a ...
... believe and adore ; and preserve for many generations the remem- brance of the city of God which had been shown ! But every night come out these envoys of beauty , and light the universe with their admonishing smile . The stars awaken a ...
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... believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer . To the attentive eye , each moment of the year has its own beauty , and in the same field , it beholds , every hour , a picture which was never seen ...
... believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer . To the attentive eye , each moment of the year has its own beauty , and in the same field , it beholds , every hour , a picture which was never seen ...
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... believe , and make others believe , that they see and utter truths , who do not of themselves clothe one thought in its natural garment , but who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country , those ...
... believe , and make others believe , that they see and utter truths , who do not of themselves clothe one thought in its natural garment , but who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country , those ...
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... believe in the external world . The belief that it appears only , is an afterthought , but with culture , this faith will as surely arise on the mind as did the first . The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith is this ...
... believe in the external world . The belief that it appears only , is an afterthought , but with culture , this faith will as surely arise on the mind as did the first . The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith is this ...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Visualização completa - 1870 |
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Página 16 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and...
Página 247 - Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Página 35 - I was there ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth ; when he established the clouds above ; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep ; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Página 9 - 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? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Página 247 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or [his; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Página 245 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genins.
Página 66 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
Página 264 - For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under.
Página 245 - 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 thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
Página 74 - Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world.