The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketchesHoughton Mifflin, 1904 |
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Página 58
... teach us that failure is a part of success . Prosperity and pound - cake are for very young gentlemen , whom such things content ; but a hero's , a man's success is made up of fail- ures , because he experiments and ventures every day ...
... teach us that failure is a part of success . Prosperity and pound - cake are for very young gentlemen , whom such things content ; but a hero's , a man's success is made up of fail- ures , because he experiments and ventures every day ...
Página 97
... teacher , is , that he affirms the Divinity in him and in us , not thrusts himself between it and us . It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature , the setting forth any fact or law which we ...
... teacher , is , that he affirms the Divinity in him and in us , not thrusts himself between it and us . It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature , the setting forth any fact or law which we ...
Página 99
... teach- ing . The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child , -temporary , ges- tative , a short period of lactation , a nurse's or a governess's care ; but on his arrival at a certain maturity , it ceases , and ...
... teach- ing . The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child , -temporary , ges- tative , a short period of lactation , a nurse's or a governess's care ; but on his arrival at a certain maturity , it ceases , and ...
Página 107
... the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive . Men ask now , " Is he serious ? Is he a sincere man , who lives as he teaches ? Is he a benefactor ? " So far the religion is now where it should be . CHARACTER 107.
... the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive . Men ask now , " Is he serious ? Is he a sincere man , who lives as he teaches ? Is he a benefactor ? " So far the religion is now where it should be . CHARACTER 107.
Página 113
... teacher or witness , heed- less of their lives and fortunes . It does not ask whether you are wrong or right in your anec- dotes of them ; but it is all in all how you stand to your own tribunal . The lines of the religious sects are ...
... teacher or witness , heed- less of their lives and fortunes . It does not ask whether you are wrong or right in your anec- dotes of them ; but it is all in all how you stand to your own tribunal . The lines of the religious sects are ...
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Página 463 - 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 506 - O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died...
Página 442 - There was somewhat military in his nature not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say, required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.
Página 542 - Yourself a new-born bard of the Holy Ghost, — cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
Página 468 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
Página 535 - He spoke of miracles ; for he felt that man's life was a miracle, and all that man doth, and he knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends. But the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression ; it is Monster.
Página 330 - Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy. Otherwise, their education and reading were not marked, but had the American superficialness, and their studies were solitary. I suppose all of them were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect, and certainly at the name of Transcendentalism, given nobody knows by whom, or when it was first applied. As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted...
Página 93 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Página 441 - They make their pride," he said, " in making their dinner cost much ; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little." 1 When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered,
Página 505 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...