 may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. These ends of labour cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives. The cheat, the...  Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle - Page 94by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they...virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives. The cheat,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...labour is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they...motives. The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the benefit, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...may be counterfeited or stolen; but that which they represent—namely, knowledge and virtue—cannot be counterfeited or stolen. These ends of labour cannot...motives. The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the benefit, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...labour is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they...real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure mo. tives. The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler cannot extort the benefit, cannot extort the knowledge... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they...virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives. The cheat,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they...virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives. The cheat,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 574 pages
...labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they...virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedieneeto pure motives. The cheat,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 486 pages
...labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they...virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives. The cheat,... | |
 | William Tait Ross - 1881 - 274 pages
...price of labour is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. The signs, like paper, may be counterfeited or stolen ; but that which they...knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen." OVER THE HILLS. WAS I ever up the Alps? Did I ever stand "at Venice on the Bridge of Sighs?" Did I... | |
 | William Tait Ross - 1881 - 246 pages
...price of labour is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. The signs, like paper, may be counterfeited or stolen ; but that which they...knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen." OVER THE HILLS. WAS I ever up the Alps? Did I ever stand "at Venice on the Bridge of Sighs?" Did I... | |
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