 | 1845 - 688 pages
...as others, on the surface of things. " What help, indeed, from thought ? Life is not dialectics." ' We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well upon them." The wise man will live in the present. He knows that the appearances are at least appearances;... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...as others, on the surface of things. " What help, indeed, from thought ? Life is not dialectics." " d the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token upon them." The wise man will live in the present. He knows that the appearances are at least appearances;... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1853 - 324 pages
... LIFE BY THE ,FIRESIDE. BY THE AUTHOR OF "VISITIKG MY RELATIONS," &c. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them. — EMERSON. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1853. LONDON : Printed by SAMUEL BKNTLIY... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 284 pages
...hour, — that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is...handling and treatment. He can take hold anywhere. Life itse'f is a mixture of power and form, and will not bear the least excess of either. To finish the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 286 pages
...hour, — that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is...handling and treatment. He can take hold anywhere. Life itse'f is a mixture of power and form, and will not bear the least excess of either. To finish the... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1859 - 518 pages
...hour — that is happiness ; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for repentance or an approval. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life, is to skate well on them.' Now this sort of oyster existence does not suit me, Cornelia Graham, nor will it suit you." " You do... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. We live arnid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well...handling and treatment. He can take hold anywhere. Life itse'f is a mixture of power and form, and will not bear the least excess of either. To finish the... | |
 | Alison Reid - 1860 - 338 pages
...the hour, that is happiness, to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well over them."— EMEBSON. ANOTHER year has passed, and, like a female Alexander Selkirk, I still reign... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1863 - 288 pages
...hour, — that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is...them. Under the oldest mouldiest conventions, a man cff native force prospers just as well as in the newest world, and that by skill of handling and treatment.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 274 pages
...hour,—that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is...handling and treatment. He can take hold anywhere. Life itse^ is a mixture of power and form, and will not bear the least excess of either. To finish the moment,... | |
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To fill the hour — that is happiness; to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them. 
