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" God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... "
Essays: First series - Page 269
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pages
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The Westminster Review, Volume 156

1901 - 744 pages
...convulsive, averse to all stagnation. As one of the greatest of nineteenth- century philosophers has said, " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which yon please — you can never have both." This, then, was the age when men were choosing Truth rather...
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Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable ..., Volumes 32-33

1852 - 576 pages
...reed, but bidding him stand firm Though she crush worlds. God offers to every mind, it has been said, its choice between truth and repose. "Take which you...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...perception of identity. We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird, are not theirs, have...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates, will keep himself aloof from...
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The Living Age, Volume 274

1912 - 880 pages
...occupations. The keynote of this volume Is a quotation taken from Emerson's Essay on Intellect which begins, "God offers to every mind Its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." Jacob is a "candidate for truth," according to Emerson, In that he submits to the "Inconvenience of...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

1848 - 614 pages
...freedom and. the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are jeplete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...perception of identity. We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird are not theirs, have...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...perception of identity. We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird, are not theirs, have...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...few men to be poets, yet every man is a receiver of this descending Holy Ghost, and may well stud y the laws of its influx. Exactly parallel is the whole...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 16

1848 - 636 pages
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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