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" Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures - Page 17
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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The Writings of John Burroughs, Volume 3

John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 pages
...theological dogma, toward everything that would hamper and limit him. It shines in his famous boast : — " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. " There is a glint of it in this passage, which might have been written to comfort John Brown, or reassure...
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Farrar Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rev. Frederic W ...

Frederic William Farrar - 1895 - 388 pages
...daily neglecting the elements of purest and loftiest pleasure. " Give me," says an American writer, " health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." But to enable us thus to enjoy the gifts of nature we all need more open eyes, more grateful hearts....
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The Unitarian, Volume 12

Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1897 - 604 pages
...with gratitude to God. At such an hour we can enter into the exalted mood of Emerson, when he said, "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." But I must come at once to my point. I stood on the day after that storm before the Great Stone Face...
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Mind, Volume 8

1901 - 500 pages
...experience rather than the cut-anddried teaching of the schools. Its key-note is Emerson's familiar saying: ''Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Dr. Janes believes that life is worth living to the fulness of its widest possibilities, and the best...
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The Story of My Life, Or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years

Mary Ashton Livermore - 1897 - 750 pages
...spiritual uplift to me. This was before Emerson had written his "Essay on Nature," in which he declares, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous ! " But I was in sympathy with its unwritten sentiment every morning, as I walked " the sounding aisles...
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The Story of My Life, Or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years

Mary Ashton Livermore - 1897 - 746 pages
...spiritual uplift to me. This was before Emerson had written his "Essay on Nature," in which he declares, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous!" But I was in sympathy with its unwritten sentiment every morning, as I walked " the sounding aisles...
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Annual Report, Volume 51

Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1897 - 844 pages
...and good until our eyes and minds are weary and then go forth to commune with nature. Kmerson s.'iys, "Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emper" on ridiculous." The treshuess and beauty of the morning, the splendor of the noon and the glory...
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Frederic William Farrar - 1898 - 340 pages
...darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays." And again: — How does nature deify us with a few cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." It ought to be a part of our most ordinary belief that "Every bird that sings, And every flower that...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 78

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 1474 pages
...Drag Stone, or lent poat free tram — C. Of. A. OJl.r>Rri>GE'S, 22 Wellington Street, Btrui Pomp. 4 Give me Health and a day, and I will make the Pomp of Emperors Ridiculous.' — EMEBSOS. Experience! from 'We Gather the Honey of Wisdom Thorns, not from Flowers.'— LYTTON....
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A Lost American: A Tale of Cuba

Archibald Clavering Gunter - 1898 - 274 pages
...white, rose, or . Snld by Sturcs itton Garden, gg** \" il Soutledffo'a Railway Library Advertiser. ' Give me Health and a Day, and I will make the Pomp of Emperors Ridiculous.' — EMERSON. t 4 We gather the Honey of Wisdom from Thorns, not from Flowers.' — LVITON. " As an...
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