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... reforms itself in the mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love ...
... reforms itself in the mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love ...
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... reforms whose fame now fills the land with Temperance , Antislavery , Non - Resistance , No Gov- ernment , Equal Labor , fair and generous as each appears , are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end . To every reform ...
... reforms whose fame now fills the land with Temperance , Antislavery , Non - Resistance , No Gov- ernment , Equal Labor , fair and generous as each appears , are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end . To every reform ...
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... reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprise you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a ...
... reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprise you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a ...
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... the world the doctrine of Reform had nev- er such scope as at the present hour . Lutherans , Hernhut- ters , Jesuits , Monks , Quakers , Knox , Wesley , Swedenborg , Bentham , in their accusations of society , all respected.
... the world the doctrine of Reform had nev- er such scope as at the present hour . Lutherans , Hernhut- ters , Jesuits , Monks , Quakers , Knox , Wesley , Swedenborg , Bentham , in their accusations of society , all respected.
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... reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprise you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a ...
... reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprise you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a ...
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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.