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Title: Essays -- First Series
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Release date: December 1, 2001 [eBook #2944]
Most recently updated: February 10, 2021
Language: English
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ESSAYS, FIRST SERIES
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contents
I. HISTORY
II. SELF-RELIANCE
III. COMPENSATION
IV. SPIRITUAL LAWS
V. LOVE
VI. FRIENDSHIP
VII. PRUDENCE
VIII. HEROISM
IX. THE OVER-SOUL
X. CIRCLES
XI. INTELLECT
XII. ART
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I.
HISTORY
There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are
And it cometh everywhere.
I am owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
Of Cæsar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain.
HISTORY
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the sa…