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"Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism."

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"Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism."

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Our work is based on the past.

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"He is placed in the centre of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him."

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"He is placed in the centre of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him."

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He is referring to man and Emerson means that man is the center of all that is existing in nature.

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"Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right. Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both."

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"Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right. Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both."

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This supports the idea that man and nature are connected together, and it takes both of them to produce a relationship.

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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

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A mans character depends on his ability to tell the truth.

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"We must trust the perfection of the creation so far..."

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"We must trust the perfection of the creation so far..."

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We can't always change things. You just gotta let it happen and trust its gonna work out how its supposed to.

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"My head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." 

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"My head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." 

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This metaphor perfectly reflects the transcendental concept that when man becomes one with nature, he is one with God. If he is "part or particle of God" he is in the most perfect state of existence.

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"We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation."

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"We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation."

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

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the person that can appreciate nature has the ability to tell about it.

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"We must trust the perfection of the creation so far...

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"Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise, and shine.

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"Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise, and shine.

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A person is capable of much more than they think when they are surrounded by the right natures and moralities.

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"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore;

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"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore;

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We take nature for granted a lot. If we didn't see stars every night we would be amazed when we do see them.

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"An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch."

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"An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch."

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Everything that man has in life, there is an equivalent in nature. Nature reflects the human life.

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"Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism."

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"Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism."

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"As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry; of all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbol. 

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"As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry; of all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbol. 

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people in history used nature to describe things , like we do now.

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"all that is separate from us... that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, NATURE."

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"all that is separate from us... that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, NATURE."

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Emerson is attempting to define what the universe is composed of and what nature is. Nature is anything that is physical. Everything else is the soul.

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".. for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind.."

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".. for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind.."

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Not everyone will have the same views on every hour. Some will have bad and some will have good.

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"The sun shines to-day also...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship."

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"The sun shines to-day also...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship."

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Life is great and fruitful. We can be our own person with our own chances to be the best version of ourselves.

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"In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to simulate the understanding or the affections." 

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"In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to simulate the understanding or the affections." 

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Lying can change how you see something

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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith."

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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith."

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Being in nature can make people feel like their faith has relevance in their life again. It's also implied that faith and reason are the same thing, like your faith is fact to you.

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"In inquiries so general as our present one, the inaccuracy is not material; no confusion of thought will occur."

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"In inquiries so general as our present one, the inaccuracy is not material; no confusion of thought will occur."

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In a life so simple it's easy to understand everything.

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"He is placed in the centre of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him."

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"He is placed in the centre of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him."

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He is referring to man and Emerson means that man is the center of human beings.

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"Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right. Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both."

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"Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right. Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both."

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This supports the idea that man and nature are connected together, and it takes both of them to produce a relationship.