Emerson: His Life and Writings (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Emerson: His Life and Writings

That is always best which gives me to myself. The sublime is excited in me by the great Stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.' That which shows God in me fortifics me. That which shows God out of me makes me a wart and a wen. There is no longer a necessary reason for my being. Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion creep over me, and I shall deceasc for ever. By his holy thoughts Jesus serves us, and thus only. To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion a true Christ is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments. It is true that agreat and rich soul like his, falling among the simple, does so preponderate, that, as his did, it moves the world.

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