The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2Macmillan, 1883 - American literature |
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Page 28
... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If ...
... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If ...
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... thou foolish philan- thropist , 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 . There is a class of persons The to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and ...
... thou foolish philan- thropist , 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 . There is a class of persons The to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and ...
Page 64
... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . " Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every ...
... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . " Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every ...
Page 68
... thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances ...
... thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances ...
Page 71
... He is weaker by every recruit to his banner . Is not a man better than a town ? Ask nothing of men , and in the endless mutation , thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all II . ] 71 SELF - RELIANCE .
... He is weaker by every recruit to his banner . Is not a man better than a town ? Ask nothing of men , and in the endless mutation , thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all II . ] 71 SELF - RELIANCE .
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Page 64 - At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with 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 Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.
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 47 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 478 - To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of character makes the State unnecessary. The wise man is the State.
Page 43 - I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.
Page 278 - God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets test, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Page 49 - An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
Page 172 - ... each stands for the whole world. What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can. Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods. Let us not interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say anything to such 1 No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and bland.
Page 325 - These are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man, to his passage out into free space, and they help him to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up, and of that jail-yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed.
Page 218 - The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other...