Emerson's Essays
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From the Claremont Historical Society, NH
Passages marked in Emerson’s essays:
“Greatness”:
“In morals this is conscience; in intellect, genius; in practice, talent.”
“Thus if you are a scholar . . . because he makes nothing else.”
“No way has been found for making heroism easy. . . blows by making them true of ourselves.”
“Immortality”
Marked above the quoted poem: “Don’t waste life in doubts and fears.”
“That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.”
“I confess that everything connected . . . the soul stipulates for no private good.”
“Inspiration”:
Poem: “And after every late morning / Followed unprofitable days”
French passage marked
“And it is a primal rule . . . which task?”
“Solitary converse with nature” to start of quoted poem
“Poetry and Imagination”:
“If your subject do not appear . . . . He is calm and elevated.”
“I know there is entertainment . . . into prophets and teachers.”
“Rhyme being a kind of music . . . launch on the seat of ideas and emotions.”
“Self-Reliance”
Passage how not to travel and how “the wise man stays at home” crossed out.
“Social Aims”
End of paragraph: “Thus much for manners.”
“I am not ignorant. . . tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.”
“He must be inestimable to us to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves.”
” . . . the incomparable satisfaction of a society in which everything can be safely said.”
“It is this that justifies to each the jealousy . . . . He of all men would keep the right choice sacred.”
”Our chief want in life . . . the nadir under us.”
“Bolt these out.”
“. . . always some weary captious paradox to fight you with, and the time and temper wasted.”
