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IX. The Over-Soul
"But souls that of his own good life partake,He loves as his own self; dear as his eyeThey are ...
VIII. Heroism
“Paradise is under the shadow of swords.”Mahomet Ruby wine is drunk by knaves,Sugar spends to ...
VII. Prudence
Theme no poet gladly sung,Fair to old and foul to young,Scorn not thou the love of parts,And th...
VI. Friendship
A ruddy drop of manly bloodThe surging sea outweighs,The world uncertain comes and goes,The lov...
V. Love
“I was as a gem concealed;Me my burning ray revealed.”Koran Every promise of the soul has in...
IV. Spiritual Laws
The living Heaven thy prayers respect,House at once and architect,Quarrying man’s rejected hour...
III. Compensation
The wings of Time are black and white,Pied with morning and with night.Mountain tall and ocean ...
II. Self-Reliance
“Ne te quaesiveris extra.” “Man is his own star; and the soul that canRender an honest and...
I. History
There is no great and no smallTo the Soul that maketh all:And where it cometh, all things are;A...
The Young American
A Lecture read before the Mercantile Library Association, Boston, February 7, 1844 GENTLEMEN: I...
The Transcendentalist
A Lecture read at the Masonic Temple, Boston,January, 1842 The first thing we have to say respec...
The Conservative
A Lecture delivered at the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 9, 1841 The two parties which divide...
Introductory Lecture on the Times
Read at the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 2, 1841 The times, as we say — or the present aspec...
Man the Reformer
A Lecture read before the Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841 ...
The Method of Nature
An Oration delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, Maine, August 11, ...
Literary Ethics
An Oration delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838 GENTLEMEN...
Divinity School Address
Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838 ...
The American Scholar
An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 Mr. Presid...
Prospects
In inquiries respecting the laws of the world and the frame of things, the highest reason is alwa...
Spirit
It is essential to a true theory of nature and of man, that it should contain somewhat progressiv...