 Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.  Essays: First Series - Page 61by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
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...and what is called life, and what is called death. 26. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...mine, it is not wit" (i. 53). With greater transcendental coarseness, he says on another occasion : " This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame; confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...called life, and what is called death. ^ Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in tKe instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition...the World hates, that the soul becomes ; for, that forever degrades the past ; turns all riches to poverty ; all reputation to a shame ; confounds the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul 6P comes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 354 pages
...present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shaine, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why, then, do we... | |
 | Theology - 1869 - 580 pages
...will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. • Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...the world hates, — that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides iu the moment of transition from a past to a new state,...the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that forever degrades the. past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the...the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Theology - 1875 - 402 pages
...possible of man.' The air of complaint which overhangs these sentences change to rigor in this : — This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for evermore •degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the... | |
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