 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
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - 358 pages
...sentences from Emerson : — He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up like an Olympian. I should hate myself if then I made my other friends my asylum. We fill ourselves with ancient learning. What do we know of nature or of ourselves ? (2) To emphasize... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1896 - 638 pages
...Love's Labor s Lost, act iv. sc. 2. 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.... | |
 | 1894 - 880 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 friend... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 704 pages
...in their glory die. The painful warrior famouse'd 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 beloved Where I may not remove nor be removed. When to the sessions... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 440 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...quite And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. tected from premature ripening. It would be lost if it knew itself before any of the best souls were... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 428 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...quite And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. tected from premature ripening. It would be lost if it knew itself before any of the best souls were... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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 - 1899 - 442 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 beloved Where I may not remove, nor be removed, XXVI. Lord... | |
 | 1900 - 108 pages
...be 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...my other friends my asylum. " The valiant warrior fampused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed quite,... | |
 | 1900 - 114 pages
...be 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...my other friends my asylum. " The valiant warrior fampused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed quite,... | |
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