"The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part I
A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - XXII
Letter XXVI I HAVE shown in the previous letters that it is only the æsthetic disposition of the soul that gives birth to liberty, it...
When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer
WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XV
Letter XIX TWO principal and different states of passive and active capacity of being determined can be distinguished in man; in like...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XII
Letter XVI FROM the antagonism of the two impulsions, and from the association of two opposite principles, we have seen beauty to result,...
Tao Te Ching - Part IX (Finale)
Chapter 75 The people's hunger Is due to the excess of their ruler's taxation So they starve The people's difficulty in being governed...
Tao Te Ching - Part VIII
Chapter 67 Everyone in the world calls my Tao great As if it is beyond compare It is only because of its greatness That it seems...
Tao Te Ching - Part VII
Chapter 57 Govern a country with upright integrity Deploy the military with surprise tactics Take the world with non-interference How...
Tao Te Ching - Part VI
Chapter 48 Pursue knowledge, daily gain Pursue Tao, daily loss Loss and more loss Until one reaches unattached action With unattached...
Tao Te Ching - Part IV
Chapter 28 Know the masculine, hold to the feminine Be the watercourse of the world Being the watercourse of the world The eternal...
