“ In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles (1841). copy citation
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Source | Circles |
Topic | past forgetting |
Date | 1841 |
Language | English |
Reference | in "Essays: First Series" |
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Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays:_First_Series/Circles |
Context
“Let them, then, become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power. This old age ought not to creep on a human mind. In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.”
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