| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841 - 408 pages
...moral duty. A self-denial no less austere than the saint's is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose...please,— you can never have both. Between these, as n pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept thfe first... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose...pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose...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... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 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 and repose. Take which you please—you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose...pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all tilings for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his...pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets,... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the individual to it. TKUTH.—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 ever. He in whom the... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saiiit's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose...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... | |
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