The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1876 |
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... 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 , ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As ...
... 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 , ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As ...
Page 57
... Leave your theory , as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of lit- tle minds , adored by little statesmen and philo- sophers and divines . With consistency a great soul has ...
... Leave your theory , as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of lit- tle minds , adored by little statesmen and philo- sophers and divines . With consistency a great soul has ...
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... leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and in his turn the founder of a sect . The arts and inven- tions of each period are only its costume and do not invigorate ...
... leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and in his turn the founder of a sect . The arts and inven- tions of each period are only its costume and do not invigorate ...
Page 89
... leave as unlawful these winnings , and deal with Cause and Effect , the chancellors of God . In the Will work and acquire , and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance , and shall sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations . A political ...
... leave as unlawful these winnings , and deal with Cause and Effect , the chancellors of God . In the Will work and acquire , and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance , and shall sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations . A political ...
Page 94
... — bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the compensation . intended ; for what else ? Is it that they are to have leave to pray and praise ? to love and serve - men ? Why , that they can do now . 94 COMPENSATION.
... — bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the compensation . intended ; for what else ? Is it that they are to have leave to pray and praise ? to love and serve - men ? Why , that they can do now . 94 COMPENSATION.
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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.