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" God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... "
Essays: First Series - Page 269
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pages
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The Westminster Review, Volume 156

1901 - 744 pages
...convulsive, averse to all stagnation. As one of the greatest of nineteenth- century philosophers has said, " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which yon please — you can never have both." This, then, was the age when men were choosing Truth rather...
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Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable ..., Volumes 32-33

1852 - 572 pages
...reed, but bidding him stand firm Though she crush worlds. God offers to every mind, it has been said, its choice between truth and repose. "Take which you...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...For the truth was in us, before it was reflected to us from natural objects ; and the profound genius will cast the likeness of all creatures into every...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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The Living Age, Volume 274

1912 - 880 pages
...occupations. The keynote of this volume Is a quotation taken from Emerson's Essay on Intellect which begins, "God offers to every mind Its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." Jacob is a "candidate for truth," according to Emerson, In that he submits to the "Inconvenience of...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

1848 - 614 pages
...freedom and. the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are jeplete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...For the truth was in us, before it was reflected to us from natural objects; and the profound genius will cast the likeness of all creatures into every...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...few men to be poets, yet every man is a receiver of this descending Holy Ghost, and may well stud y the laws of its influx. Exactly parallel is the whole...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 16

1848 - 636 pages
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as ! this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...For the truth was in us, before it was reflected to us from natural objects ; and the profound genius will cast the likeness of all creatures into every...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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