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... beauty , the per- fect medium never overstepping the limit of charming propriety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpture , " the tongue on the balance of expres . - - sion , " those forms in every action , at 12 ESSAY I.
... beauty , the per- fect medium never overstepping the limit of charming propriety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpture , " the tongue on the balance of expres . - - sion , " those forms in every action , at 12 ESSAY I.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature , -all ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature , -all ...
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... beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be individ- ualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biogra- phy deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender ...
... beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be individ- ualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biogra- phy deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender ...
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... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , the essence of virtue , and the essence of life , which we call Spontaneity ...
... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , the essence of virtue , and the essence of life , which we call Spontaneity ...
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... beauty , and lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the sea , and at last wake up in Naples , and there beside me is the stern Fact , the sad self , unrelenting , identical , that I fled from . I seek the ...
... beauty , and lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the sea , and at last wake up in Naples , and there beside me is the stern Fact , the sad self , unrelenting , identical , that I fled from . I seek the ...
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Page 42 - 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 this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it.
Page 35 - 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.
Page 68 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Page 44 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Page 166 - It makes no difference how many friends I have and what content I can find in conversing with each, if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
Page 40 - Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself.
Page 73 - A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Page 11 - Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Page 37 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Page 43 - Then, aguin, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor ? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.