Character is always known. Thefts never enrich ; alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie, — for example, the taint of vanity, any attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance, — will instantly... Transcendentalism: And Other Addresses - Page 84by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1886 - 103 pagesFull view - About this book
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...smallest mixture of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favourable appearance, will instantly vitiate the effect.; but speak the truth,...brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass under ground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness." — Emerson THERE are some who arc... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...example, the smallest mixture of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favourable appearance—will instantly vitiate the effect; but...unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things H alive or brute are vouchers; and the very roots of' the grass under ground there do seem to stir... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...smallest mixture of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favourable appearance, will vitiate the effect ; but speak the truth, and all...all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance." This law is not only true of a man's outward life, but also of his inner life. We are dual in our nature,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 pages
...example, the taint of vanity, any attempt to make a. good 'impression, a favorable appearance, — will instantly vitiate the effect. But speak the truth,...and the very roots of the grass underground there, dcuseem to stir and move to bear you witness. See again the perfection of the Law as it applies itself... | |
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...example, the taint of vanity, any attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance, — will instantly vitiate, the effect. But speak the truth,...affections, and becomes the law of society. As we are,*so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good ; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus... | |
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...smallest mixture of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favourable appearance, — will instantly vitiate the effect ; but speak the truth, and all nature and all spirit helps you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers... | |
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| John Brookes (F.G.S.) - 1875 - 152 pages
...for_example, the smallest mixture of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favourable appearance—will instantly vitiate the effect ; but...all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance." "O, my brother," says Thomas Carlyle, "be not thou a quack ! Die rather, if thou wilt take counsel... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance — will instantly vitiate the effect. But speak the truth,...affections, and becomes the law of society. As we arc, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good ; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus... | |
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...smallest mixture of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favourable appearance — will instantly vitiate the effect; but speak the truth,...all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance." " 0, my brother," says Thomas Carlyle, " be not thou a quack ! Die rather, if thou wilt take counsel... | |
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