Compensation
Essays, First Series
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
III. COMPENSATION.
Ever since I was a boy I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation; for it seemed to me when very young that on this subject life was ahead of theology and the people knew more than the preachers taught. The documents too from which the doctrine is to be drawn, charmed my fancy by their endless variety, and …
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Compensation
Self-Reliance
Self-Reliance
Essays, First Series
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Ne te quaesiveris extra.”
“Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
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History
History
Essays, First Series
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are
And it cometh everywhere.
I am owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
Of Caesar’s hand, and Plato’s brain,
Of Lord Christ’s heart, and Shakspeare’s strain.
I. …
The Alchemist, Paul Coehlo
The Alchemist by Paul Coehlo is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who sets out on a journey in search of a treasure.
The sheperd boy’s adventures teach us about the importance of faith. The story will help you appreciate the value of listening to your heart, and what can happen if you follow your dreams.
Browse The …
Spiritual Laws
IV. SPIRITUAL LAWS.
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory. The river-bank, …
Frankenstein
Frankenstein,
or the Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Part 1
CONTENTS
Letter 1
St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17—
TO Mrs. Saville, England
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear …
Heart Of Darkness
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Part II
“One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard voices approaching—and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling along the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost myself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: ‘I am as harmless as a little child, but I don’t like to be …
Heart Of Darkness
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Part III
“I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in motley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic, fabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, …
Frankenstein
Frankenstein,
or the Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Part 2
Chapter 15
“Such was the history of my beloved cottagers. It impressed me deeply. I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire their virtues and to deprecate the vices of mankind.
“As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil, benevolence and generosity were ever …
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Part I
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable …