Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Licence: Public domain · Source

• "Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.... Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find." GOLDSMITH (and JOHNSON), _The Traveler_, 423-32. ¶732
• "He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' center, and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself in his own dungeon." MILTON, _Comus_, 381-5. ¶733
• Compare also _Paradise Lost_, I, 255-7.] ¶734
• "Nec metuis dubio Fortunae stantis in orbe Numen, et exosae verba superba deae?" OVID, _Tristia_, v., 8, 8. ¶768
• In connection with his essay on _Friendship_, the student should read the two other notable addresses on the same subject, one the speech by Cicero, the famous Roman orator, and the other the essay by Lord Bacon, the great English author.] ¶772
• "When half-gods go The gods arrive." ¶788
• "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth replies, 'I can.'" ¶832

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