Essays, First SeriesJ. Munroe, 1850 - 333 pages |
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... Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
... Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
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... Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depra- vations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand be- fore each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my ...
... Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depra- vations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand be- fore each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my ...
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... Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman Em- pire . Christ is born , and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius , that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man . An institution is the lengthened shadow ...
... Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman Em- pire . Christ is born , and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius , that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man . An institution is the lengthened shadow ...
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... Cæsar and Na- poleon ; but the best of their power was in nature , not in them . Men of an extraordinary success , in their honest moments , have always sung , ' Not un- to us , not unto us . ' According to the faith of their times ...
... Cæsar and Na- poleon ; but the best of their power was in nature , not in them . Men of an extraordinary success , in their honest moments , have always sung , ' Not un- to us , not unto us . ' According to the faith of their times ...
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... Cæsar , and not the player of Cæsar ; then the selfsame strain of thought , emotion as pure , wit as subtle , motions as swift , mounting , extravagant , and a heart as great , self- sufficing , dauntless , which on the waves of its ...
... Cæsar , and not the player of Cæsar ; then the selfsame strain of thought , emotion as pure , wit as subtle , motions as swift , mounting , extravagant , and a heart as great , self- sufficing , dauntless , which on the waves of its ...
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Page 43 - 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.
Page 246 - The Supreme Critic on fhe 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...
Page 248 - 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 294 - The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why ; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful ; it is by abandonment. The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. " A man," said Oliver Cromwell, " never...
Page 312 - 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 39 - 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 108 - I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
Page 277 - The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Page 249 - 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 61 - 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. There is no time to them.