Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volumen2Houghton, Osgood, 1880 |
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... soul to convey his quality to other men . And every one can do his best thing easiest . “ Peu de moyens , beaucoup d'effét . " He is great who is what he is from nature , and who never reminds us of others . - But he must be related to ...
... soul to convey his quality to other men . And every one can do his best thing easiest . “ Peu de moyens , beaucoup d'effét . " He is great who is what he is from nature , and who never reminds us of others . - But he must be related to ...
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... soul outward . Gift is contrary to the law of the universe . Serving others is serving us . I must absolve me to myself . Mind thy affair , ' says the spirit : — ' coxcomb , would you meddle with the skies , or with other people ...
... soul outward . Gift is contrary to the law of the universe . Serving others is serving us . I must absolve me to myself . Mind thy affair , ' says the spirit : — ' coxcomb , would you meddle with the skies , or with other people ...
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... soul is impatient of masters , and eager for change . Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valuable , She had lived with me long enough . We are tendencies , or rather , symptoms , and none of us complete . We touch and go , and ...
... soul is impatient of masters , and eager for change . Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valuable , She had lived with me long enough . We are tendencies , or rather , symptoms , and none of us complete . We touch and go , and ...
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... soul who knows little of persons or parties , of Carolina or Cuba , but who announces a law that disposes these particulars , and so certifies me of the equity which check- mates every false player , bankrupts every self - seeker , and ...
... soul who knows little of persons or parties , of Carolina or Cuba , but who announces a law that disposes these particulars , and so certifies me of the equity which check- mates every false player , bankrupts every self - seeker , and ...
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... souls , and releases his servants from their barbarous homages ; an emperor , who can spare his empire . But I intended to specify , with a little .minuteness , two or three points of service . Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe ...
... souls , and releases his servants from their barbarous homages ; an emperor , who can spare his empire . But I intended to specify , with a little .minuteness , two or three points of service . Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe ...
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Página 74 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Página 159 - The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ; No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Página 198 - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Página 150 - The lesson of life is practically to generalize ; to believe what the years and the centuries say against the hours ; to resist the usurpation of particulars ; to penetrate to their catholic sense. Things seem to say one thing, and say the reverse. The appearance is immoral ; the result is moral. Things seem to tend downward, to justify despondency, to promote rogues, to defeat the just ; and, by knaves, as by martyrs, the just cause is carried forward. Although knaves win in every political struggle...
Página 239 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower...
Página 223 - The rifle butt, or club of wood, Could stand no more than straws. George Nidiver stood still And looked him in the face; The wild beast stopped amazed, Then came with slackening pace. Still firm the hunter stood, Although his heart beat high; Again the creature stopped, And gazed with wondering eye. The hunter met his gaze, Nor yet an inch gave way; The bear turned slowly round, And slowly moved away. What thoughts were in his mind It would be hard to spell: What thoughts were in George Nidiver I...
Página 64 - When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him." Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report of one of his orations, " Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself...
Página 224 - Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book ; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise ; holding things because they are things. If he can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist, and will open themselves to-morrow.
Página 166 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Página 142 - One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.