 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 - 1921 - 584 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...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.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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...for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, IB from the book of honour razed quite. And all the rest forgot for which he toiled." Our impatience... | |
 | Dorothy Miller Richardson - 1921 - 326 pages
...ought never to have spoken to anybody. "If I have shrunk unequal from one contest the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate myself if I then made my other friends my asylum." Emerson would have hated me. But he thinks evil people are... | |
 | American Library Association. Conference - 1922 - 942 pages
...society, for health, for life itself. You cannot deny them your sympathy and support because: The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories,...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. AS OTHERS SEE US By NELLIE E. PARHAM, Withers Public Library, Bloomington, Illinois EXTRACTS. FOURTH... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...joy I find in all the rest becomes mean anr1 cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my othei friends my asylum. "The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, 5 Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled." ° 10. Our impatience... | |
 | American Library Association - 1923 - 540 pages
...society, for health, for life itself. You cannot deny them your sympathy and support because: The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories,...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. AS OTHERS SEE US By NELLIE E. PARHAM, Withers Public Library, Bloomington, Illinois EXTRACTS. FOURTH... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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...he toiled." Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked. JBashfulness and_apathy. are a tough husk in which a delicate organization is protected from premature... | |
 | Henry Dwight Sedgwick - 1926 - 452 pages
...Mexico. Shakespeare says: 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. Shakespeare might have had Cortes in mind. But the Emperor had many cares; the great conqueror... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 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. 29 WHEN, in disgrace... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - 1993 - 348 pages
...25. As Shakespeare put it in sonnet 25: 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. (Son. 25,9-12) 26. "A gate of steel" that renders the sun's heat is one of Shakespeare's more formidable... | |
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