Essays, Lectures and OrationsW. S. Orr & Company, 1848 - 364 páginas |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , -when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , -when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our ...
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... seems the self - defence of man against this untruth , namely , a dis- content with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal , if it could , the fire of the Creator ...
... seems the self - defence of man against this untruth , namely , a dis- content with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal , if it could , the fire of the Creator ...
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... seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves ...
... seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves ...
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... 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 this ; the only right is what ...
... 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 this ; the only right is what ...
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... seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your ...
... seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your ...
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abstrac action affections appear astronomy beauty becomes behold better black event Bonduca character church Conservatism conversation divine doctrine earth Emanuel Swedenborg Epaminondas eternal exist fact faculties faith fear feel genius give hand heart heaven honour hope hour human idea inspiration intellect labour light live look man's manual labour means mind moral nature never noble object Parliament of Love perception perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry present prudence racter reason reform relation religion rich scholar seems seen sense sentiment shines society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars sublime talent teach thee things thou thought tion tism to-day Transcendentalist true truth universal Uranus virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words worship Xenophon Zoroaster
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Página 186 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Página 30 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Página 194 - To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Página ix - 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 dreams.
Página 344 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit, not to be reckoned one character — - not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?
Página 344 - What is the remedy? 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.
Página 230 - For us the winds do blow; The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight or as our treasure. The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed; Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws; Music and light attend our head. All things unto our flesh are kind In their descent and being; to our mind In their ascent and cause.
Página 196 - 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.
Página 344 - The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
Página 342 - What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan ; the ballad in the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body...