Let us have a robust, manly life ; let us know what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid and seasonable and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with real men and women, and not with skipping ghosts. Complete Works - Page 152by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 270 pages
...ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the skeptic, this of consideration, of self containing ; not at all of unbelief, not at all of universal denying; nor of universal doubting, doubtiug even that he doubts ; least of all, of scoffing, and profligate jeering at all that is stable... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1857 - 300 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...not at all of universal denying, nor of universal doubting,—doubting even that he doubts ; least of all, of scoffing and profligate jeering at all... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1861 - 444 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with real men and real women, and not with skipping ghosts. * * Knowledge is the knowing that we can not know.* And even... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...skipping ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing; not at all of unbelief; not at all of universal... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...skipping ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing ; not at all of unbelief ; not at all of universal... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...skipping ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing; not at all of unbelief; not at all of universal... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid and seasonable and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...ghosts. This then is the right ground of the skeptic, —i this of consideration, of self-containing ; not at all of unbelief ; not at all of universal denying,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 252 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...skipping ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing; not at all of unbelief; not at all of universal... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 504 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with...skipping ghosts. This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing ; not at all of unbelief ; not at all of universal... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid, and seasonable, and our own. A world in the st off sceptic, — this of consideration, of self-containing ; not at all of unbelief ; not at all of universal... | |
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