 It makes no difference how many friends I have and what content I can find in conversing with each, if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.  Essays - Page 166by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. Sounet xxv. And simple truth miscalled simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill. Sounet Ixvi.... | |
 | Ethan Allen Hitchcock - 1866 - 298 pages
...buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled : Then happy I, that love and am beloved, Where I may not remove nor be removed. The sense of this... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the books of honor razed quite. And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. Sh. Sun. 25. WASHINGTON. Washington's a watchword such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1868 - 1172 pages
...The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories, once foiled, le from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled."t Impartial criticism can not indeed wholly acquit General Rosecrans of bhuno for Chickamauga.... | |
 | 1894 - 900 pages
...costs. But some think with Shakespeare : " The painfnl warrior, famonsed for fight, After a thousand victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honor...quite , And all the rest forgot for which he toiled." And Tyndall was not minded to be forgot ; at any rate, for that reason. TOL. XIJT. — 19 In the autumn... | |
 | 1872 - 320 pages
...one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, instantly the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate myself if then 1 made my other friends "my asylum. I dp not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest... | |
 | Abby Morton Diaz - 1875 - 232 pages
...and no time to dust a chair-round ! ' ' " The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which she toiled." Many a toiling housewife, warring against untidiness, has felt the truth of these lines,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate...toiled." ' Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked, yBashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in I which a delicate organization is protected from I premature... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my othel friends my asylum. K " The valiant warrior famouscd for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled,...rebuked. Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk, iu which a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening. It would be lost, if it knew... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate...my other friends my asylum. " The valiant warrior fainoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed quite,... | |
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