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" All his are mine, all mine his. I say to him, How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things, for gifts. This... "
Essays - Page 157
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 538 pages
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Essays: Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...give us besides earth, and fire, and water, opportunity, love, reverence, and objects of veneration. He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We...injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally...
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The Dial, Volume 4

Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 pages
...expectation of gratitude is mean, and is continually punished by total insensibility. And truly considered, it is a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning from one who has had the ill luck to be served by you. It is very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 35

1850 - 818 pages
...commend this to that much-injured class of housekeepers who are so troubled by ungrateful servants), * the expectation of gratitude is mean, and is continually...one who has had the ill-luck to be served by you. The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurabllity between a man and his...
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Essays, Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 284 pages
...rather sympathize with the beneficiary, than with the anger of my lord Timon. For, the expectation 6f gratitude is mean, and is continually punished by...injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...give us besides earth, and fire, and water, opportunity, love, reverence, and objects of veneration. He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We...injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...us- — besides earth and fire and water — opportunity, love, reverence, and objects of veneration. He is a good man who can receive a gift well. We are...injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...flagon of wine, when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny 1 Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things...injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...invaded, or when a gift comes from such as do not know my spirit, and so the act is not supported;1 and if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should...who never thanks, and who says, "Do not flatter your benefao tors." The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurability between...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...it was taken from, I rather sympathize with the beneficiary, than with the anger of my lord Timou. For, the expectation of gratitude is mean, and is...injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...sympathize with the beneficiary, than with the anger of my lord Timon. For, the expectation of gratitnde is mean, and is continually punished by the total...injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to be served by yon. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally...
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