 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 - 1901 - 554 pages
...valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he...Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk, in which a delicate organisation is protected from premature ripening. It would be lost if it knew itself before any of... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 518 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...impatience is thus sharply rebuked. Bashfulness and 382 SrCCESS AND HOW TO WTf IT apathy are a tough husk in which a delicate organization is protected... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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...honor razed quite And all the rest forgot for which he toiled."1 Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked. Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in which... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 464 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...honor razed quite And all the rest forgot for which he toikd." ' Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked. Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in which... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 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 toii'd. Then happy I, that love and am beloved Where I may not remove nor be removed. When to the sessions... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 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...quite And all the rest forgot for which he toiled." J1 Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked. Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in which a delicate... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and 20 cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum 4 : — "The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 294 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 : MY glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date ; But when in... | |
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