 How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character? Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations. I ask to be melted. You can only ask of the metals that they be tender to the fire that...  Thoreau, the Poet-naturalist: With Memorial Verses - Page 88by William Ellery Channing - 1902 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...himself." " Of what significance the things you can forget? A little thought is sexton to all the world." " How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character? " " Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations." " I ask to... | |
 | 1878 - 300 pages
...From indolence, despondency, and indiscretion, may I specially be preserved. — John Quincy Adams. How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character? — Thoreau. There cannot be a pleasant smile on the lips of the hopeless. The blow which crushes the... | |
 | 1862 - 796 pages
...himself." " Of what significance the things you can forget? A little thought is sexton to all the world." " How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character ? " " Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations." " I ask... | |
 | 1877 - 520 pages
...that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities. — Walti. How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed time of character. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. TO OUK READERS. \Vc shall... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 480 pages
...means essentially the same." "The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high." " How can we. have a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character? " " Let our meanness be our footstool, not our cushion." "Only that day dawns to which we are awake."... | |
 | 1882 - 478 pages
...Afternoon. Flattery is a false coin which has circulation only through our vanity. — La Rochefoucauld. How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character? No trait of character is rarer, none more admirable, than thoughtful independence of the opinions of... | |
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...Afternoon. Flattery is a false coin which has circulation only through our vanity.—La Rochefoucauld. How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character ? No trait of character is rarer, none more admirable, than thoughtful independence of the opinions... | |
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..." Of what significance the things you can forget ? A little thought is sexton to all the world." " How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character ? " " Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a faec of hronzc to expectations." " I ask... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 336 pages
..." Of what significance the things you can forget ? A little thought is sexton to all the world." " How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character ? " " Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations." " I ask... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 400 pages
..." Of what significance the things you can forget ? A little thought is sexton to all the world." " How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character ? " " Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations." " I ask... | |
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