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It is the largest part of a man that is not inventoried. He has many enumerable parts: he is social, professional, political, sectarian, literary, and is this or that set and corporation. But after the most exhausting census has been made, there remains as much more which no tongue can tell. And this remainder is that which interests. This is that which the preacher and the poet and the musician speak to. This is that which the strong genius works upon; the region of destiny, of aspiration, of the unknown. Ah, they have a secret persuasion that as little as they pass for in the world, they are immensely rich in the expectancy and power. Nobody has ever yet dispossessed this adhesive self to arrive at any glimpse or guess of the awful Life that lurks under it.
Far the best part, I repeat, of every mind is not that which he knows, but which hovers in the gleams, suggestions, tantalizing, unpossessed, before him. His firm recorded knowledge soon loses all interest for him. But this dancing chorus of thought and hopes is the quarry of his future, is his possibilty, and teaches him that his man's life is of a ridiculous brevity and meanness, but that it is his first age and trial only his young wings, that cast revolutions, migrations, and gyres on gyres in the celestial societies invite him. (essay)
Quote 1- A friend is a person with whome I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. Quote 2- Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Quote 3- We all boil at different degrees.
That is one of Emerson's essay's. It's one of the shorter ones that I have read, in my opinion anyway. Undernearth the long essay are three quotes of his that I like as well.
Kainus_Wind · Fri Feb 11, 2005 @ 05:18am · 2 Comments |
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