Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 |
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Pàgina 14
... The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris 14 HISTORY .
... The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris 14 HISTORY .
Pàgina 15
Ralph Waldo Emerson James Elliot Cabot. hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is history , " said Napoleon , “ but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson James Elliot Cabot. hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is history , " said Napoleon , “ but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with ...
Pàgina 35
... 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 near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to ...
... 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 near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to ...
Pàgina 41
... , and bring with him into humble cottages the bless- ing of the morning stars , and all the recorded ben- efits of heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? - - Then I reject all I have written , HISTORY . 41.
... , and bring with him into humble cottages the bless- ing of the morning stars , and all the recorded ben- efits of heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? - - Then I reject all I have written , HISTORY . 41.
Pàgina 79
... heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imag- ine how you aliens have any right to see , how you can see ; ' It must be somehow that you stole the light from us . ' They do not yet perceive that light ...
... heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imag- ine how you aliens have any right to see , how you can see ; ' It must be somehow that you stole the light from us . ' They do not yet perceive that light ...
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Pàgina 52 - Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Pàgina 55 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Pàgina 253 - We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.
Pàgina 49 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Pàgina 52 - 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.
Pàgina 318 - The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird are not theirs, have nothing of them : the world is only their lodging and table. But the poet, whose verses are to be spheral and complete, is one whom Nature cannot deceive, whatsoever face of strangeness she may put on. He feels a strict consanguinity, and detects more likeness than variety in all her changes. We are stung by the desire for new thought ; but when we receive a new thought, it is only the old thought with a new face, and though we make it...
Pàgina 83 - What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under ! But compare the health of the two men and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength.
Pàgina 55 - 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.
Pàgina 54 - ... 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. There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them 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...
Pàgina 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.