 Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.  Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet - Page 159by Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
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...that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet... | |
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