Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, 第 2 卷 |
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第 10 頁
... light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained ...
... light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained ...
第 12 頁
... light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for char- ity ; the foundation of friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remarkable that ...
... light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for char- ity ; the foundation of friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remarkable that ...
第 13 頁
... lights of the fir- mament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to esteem his own life the text , and books the commentary . Thus ...
... lights of the fir- mament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to esteem his own life the text , and books the commentary . Thus ...
第 23 頁
... light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my com- panion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over ...
... light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my com- panion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over ...
第 36 頁
... light by which man is truly man . But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and re- fuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts ...
... light by which man is truly man . But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and re- fuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts ...
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第 318 頁 - ... event, so that all the laws of nature may be read in the smallest fact. The intellect must have the like perfection in its apprehension and in its works. For this reason, an index or mercury of intellectual proficiency is the perception of identity. We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. 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,...
第 83 頁 - 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.
第 67 頁 - I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. lie is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. 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.
第 281 頁 - THE eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it forms is the second ; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.
第 66 頁 - The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.
第 82 頁 - It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken.
第 55 頁 - The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
第 106 頁 - All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat ; an eye for an eye ; a tooth for a tooth ; blood for blood ; measure for measure ; love for love. — Give, and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — "What will you have ? quoth God ; pay for it and take it.
第 48 頁 - The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on .him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablishcd harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
第 203 頁 - ... no consuetudes or habits of society, would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with them as we desire, —but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they. In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.