 The first is, the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points; as the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle...  The Conduct of Life - Page 62by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...admits. The first is, the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points; as the gardener, by severe...twigs. " Enlarge not thy destiny," said the oracle: " endeavournot to do more than is given thee in charge." The one prudence in life is concentration;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 120 pages
...admits. The first is, the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points ; as the gardener, by severe...concentration ; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends, and a social... | |
 | 1862 - 500 pages
...gladness of innocence. — Harriet Marlineau. I ! Do YOCH Ow.v WOBK. — Enlarge not thy destiny, says the oracle ; endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge; the one prudence of life is concentration: the one evil is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether... | |
 | 1862 - 588 pages
...manure, at present lost, — Mark-Lane Express. Do YOUR OWN WORK.— Enlarge nqt thy destiny, says the oracle ; endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge j the one prudence of life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation ; and it makes no difference... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...admits. The first is, the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points ; as the gardener, by severe...twigs. " Enlarge not thy destiny," said the oracle : " endeavour not to do more than is given thee in charge." The one prudence in life is concentration... | |
 | Unity, Mary Ann Kelty - 1867 - 150 pages
...valuable minds. — EMERSON.* 7" Unite my heart to fear thy name." — Psalm lxxx. u. The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation ; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine, — property and its cares, friends and... | |
 | 1869 - 838 pages
...decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points ; as tha gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the...of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs." " The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation ; and it makes no difference... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1869 - 912 pages
...miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points; as the gardener, by severe priming, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous...of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs." " The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation ; and it makes no difference... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1869 - 838 pages
...stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points; aa the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of...one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it tc, spindle into a sheaf of twigs." " The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...admits. The first is, the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points ; as the gardener, by severe...to do more than is given thee in charge." The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation : and it makes no difference whether... | |
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