The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1876 |
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Page 31
... earth his strength was re- newed . Man is the broken giant , and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invig- orated by habits of conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry , to unfix and as it were ...
... earth his strength was re- newed . Man is the broken giant , and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invig- orated by habits of conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry , to unfix and as it were ...
Page 32
... earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven- facing speakers . Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul ...
... earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven- facing speakers . Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul ...
Page 39
... earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we can- not strongly state one fact without ...
... earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we can- not strongly state one fact without ...
Page 79
... the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new termi- nology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby . It will happen for a time that the pupil will SELF - RELIANCE 79.
... the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new termi- nology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby . It will happen for a time that the pupil will SELF - RELIANCE 79.
Page 80
... its fascination for all educated Americans . They who made Eng- land , Italy , or Greece venerable in the imagina- tion , did so by sticking fast where they were , like an axis of the earth . In manly hours 80 SELF - RELIANCE.
... its fascination for all educated Americans . They who made Eng- land , Italy , or Greece venerable in the imagina- tion , did so by sticking fast where they were , like an axis of the earth . In manly hours 80 SELF - RELIANCE.
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Page 407 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
Page 57 - 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.
Page 431 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 67 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day.
Page 341 - 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 rest, commodity and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Page 270 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Page 271 - God comes to see us without bell :" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God.
Page 48 - A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.
Page 76 - ... from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
Page 64 - 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 or Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.