The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of lifeHoughton Mifflin, 1904 |
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life Ralph Waldo Emerson Vista completa - 1904 |
Términos y frases comunes
Æsir Æsop animal beauty believe better Boston brain called character charm Concord culture dæmon divine Emerson England essay eternal eyes F. B. Sanborn face faith farm Fate force friends genius give Goethe grace hand heart heaven heroes Honest Man's Fortune horse human illusion intellect Journal Julius Cæsar king limp band live look man's mankind manners Margaret Fuller means mind moral motto nature never Over-Soul persons plant Plato Plutarch Poems poet politics poor quadruped Quatrain race RALPH WALDO EMERSON religion rich royal sails rule Saadi secret sense society solitude soul spirit talent things thou thought tion town truth ture universe verse virtue Vishnu Purana wealth whilst wise wish wrote Yoganidra youth
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Página 402 - As though to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And...
Página 404 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Página 409 - But, laying hands on another, To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust. Trump of their rescue, sound ! Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim.
Página 424 - Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
Página 396 - 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.
Página 388 - Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round ; In vain produced, all rays return ; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
Página 273 - HE who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Página 329 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Página 408 - O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red, All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
Página 406 - ... saw them pass, In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift, and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue. And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name; — Some to see, some to be guessed, They marched from east to west: Little man, least of all, Among the legs of his guardians tall, Walked about with puzzled look: — Him by the hand dear Nature took; Dearest Nature, strong and kind. Whispered, 'Darling, never mind!...