Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. On the other hand , nature punishes any neglect of pru- dence . If you think the ... hands , instead of honey , it will yield us bees . Our words and actions to be fair must be timely . A gay and pleasant ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. On the other hand , nature punishes any neglect of pru- dence . If you think the ... hands , instead of honey , it will yield us bees . Our words and actions to be fair must be timely . A gay and pleasant ...
Page 128
... hand to hand , and they are a feeble folk . It is a proverb that " courtesy costs nothing " ; but calcula- tion might come to value love for its profit . Love is fabled to be blind ; but kindness is necessary to perception ; love is not ...
... hand to hand , and they are a feeble folk . It is a proverb that " courtesy costs nothing " ; but calcula- tion might come to value love for its profit . Love is fabled to be blind ; but kindness is necessary to perception ; love is not ...
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... hand that built can topple it down much faster . Better than the hand , and nimbler , was the invisible thought which wrought through it and thus ever behind the coarse effect is a fine cause , which being narrowly seen , is itself the ...
... hand that built can topple it down much faster . Better than the hand , and nimbler , was the invisible thought which wrought through it and thus ever behind the coarse effect is a fine cause , which being narrowly seen , is itself the ...
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