Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 49
... hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string . Accept the place the divine providence has found for you , the society of your contemporaries , the connection of events . Great men have always done so , and confided ...
... hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string . Accept the place the divine providence has found for you , the society of your contemporaries , the connection of events . Great men have always done so , and confided ...
Page 53
... hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my ob- ligation ...
... hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my ob- ligation ...
Page 61
... hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be ga- zetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife . Let us never bow and ...
... hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be ga- zetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife . Let us never bow and ...
Page 68
... new . It shall exclude example and experience . You take the way from man , not to man . All per- sons that ever existed are its forgotten ministers . Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is 68 SELF - RELIANCE .
... new . It shall exclude example and experience . You take the way from man , not to man . All per- sons that ever existed are its forgotten ministers . Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is 68 SELF - RELIANCE .
Page 69
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is somewhat low even in hope . In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion be- holds identity and ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is somewhat low even in hope . In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion be- holds identity and ...
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