 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...on talent, education, stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement. You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise, you...the universe, — to receive favors and render none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement. You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise, you...the universe, — to receive favors and render none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement. You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise, you...the one base thing in the universe, — to receive favours, and render none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive... | |
 | 1842 - 538 pages
...Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement. You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise, you...the one base thing in the universe — to receive favours, and render none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive... | |
 | 1842 - 648 pages
...Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement. You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise, you...the one base thing in the universe, — to receive favours, and render none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive... | |
 | 1845 - 458 pages
...last your own debt." " For every benefit which you receive a tax is levied. He is great who confers most benefits. He is base, — and that is the one base thing in the universe, — who receives favors and renders none." " The league between virtue and nature engages all things... | |
 | 1845 - 452 pages
...time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement. You must pay at last your own debt." " For every benefit which you receive a tax is levied. He is great who confers most benefits. He is base, — and that is the one base thing in the universe, — who receives favors... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...into every assembly, Uiat a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is guag'd and stamped. 3. It is base, and that is the one base thing in the universe, to receive favor, and render none. 4. How shall we knoiu, that Washington — was the most prudent and judicious... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...into every assembly, that a man enters, in every action he attempts, ho is guag'd and slamp'd. 3. It is base, and that is the one base thing in the universe, to receive favor, and render none. 4. How shall we know, that Washington—was the most prudent and judicious... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...atsimbly, that a man enters, in every action he attempts, ho is guag'd and stamped. 3. It is bane, and that is the one base thing in the universe, to receive tavor, and render none. 4. How shall we know, that Washingt(m — was the most prudent and judicious... | |
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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt. Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise you will dread a prosperity which only loads... 
