 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 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...hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. " Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1885 - 280 pages
...in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd : Then happy I, that love and am belov'd Where I may not remove nor be remov'd. XXVI. Lord of... | |
 | 1887 - 468 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 or be removed." The twenty-sixth has... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 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...rebuked. Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in wkich a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening. It would be lost if it knew itself... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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...friends my asylum. " The valiant warrior famoused for light, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...unequal from one contest, in-\ stantly the joy I find in all the rest becomes \ I A ' •-/• / / ,mean and cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum. I " The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book... | |
 | George A. Smith - 1889 - 528 pages
...matters. Macbeth, act i. sc. 5. Book — 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. Sonnets, son. xxv. Born — I was not born under a rhyming planet. Much Ado about Nothing, act v. sc.... | |
 | 1890 - 124 pages
...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 j then I made my other friends my asylum. "The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 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...foiled, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And till the rest forgot for which he toiled." Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked. Bashfulness and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1894 - 906 pages
...costs. But some think with Shakespeare : The painful warrior, famoused 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. - In the autumn of 1851, my... | |
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