All 13 Uses
essence
in
Selected Essays
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- [25] In its essence it is progressive†
Chpt 1. *
- Essence, or God, is not a relation, or a part, but the whole.†
Chpt 2.
- The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.†
Chpt 3.
- Their essence is not less beautiful than their appearance, though it needs finer organs for its apprehension.†
Chpt 4.
- Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.†
Chpt 4.
- The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.†
Chpt 4.
- Self-trust is the essence of heroism.†
Chpt 5.
- The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.†
Chpt 5.
- The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear, omnipotent to its own ends, and is directly related, there amid essences and billets-doux, to Himalaya mountain-chains[509] and the axis of the globe.†
Chpt 8.
- The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought.†
Chpt 8.
- That power which does not respect quantity, which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel, delegates its smile to the morning, and distills its essence into every drop of rain.†
Chpt 8.
- It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence, until after a long time.†
Chpt 8.
- It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.†
Chpt 9.
Definitions:
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(1)
(essence) the defining or most important quality of something
or:
a extract that concentrates important qualities of something such as smell or taste - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)