 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 pages
...flowers that bloom unheeded, and in wind-tossed forests finds its timber for temples and for ships. " I do not see," says Emerson, " how any man can afford,...opportunity of action passed by as a loss of power." Kossuth called himself " a tempest-tossed soul, whose eyes have been sharpened by affliction." Benjamin... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves...The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves...The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves...opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products. A strange process too,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves...exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wis. dom. The true: scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power. 1 It is... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves...The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves...The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves...partake. It is pearls and rubies to his discourse. Drudg- ' ery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 508 pages
...wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves...The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves...exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. I The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power. It is the raw... | |
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I pierce its order; I dissipate its fear ; I dispose of it within the circuit of my expanding life. So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion.... 
