 Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 2by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1900 - 682 pages
...everything you said today. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what" we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be'...to take with shame our own opinion from another." A primary teacher must be hopeful of her material. We of course prefer chiYdren of great mental endowment,... | |
 | Second Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1900 - 264 pages
...on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say, with masterly good sense, precisely what we have thought and felt all the time ; and we shall...to take with shame our own opinion from another." Here, surely, was no mere moralizing, but practical good sense, the good sense of keen psychology ;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely •what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...suicide; that he must take himself for better for \vorse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...precisely what we have thought and felt all tlie time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our opinion from another. There is a time in every man's...arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that so imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion ; that though... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1901 - 226 pages
...is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...to take with shame our own opinion from another." Accepting the opinions of another and the tastes of another is very different from agreement in opinion... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 410 pages
...is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our opinion from another." The same idea is thus expressed by the English novelist, David Christie Murray... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is igno, ranee ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1905 - 872 pages
...and disgrace follow. Cliapman. Time's current may wear wrinkles in the face, but not reach the heart. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation ia suicide ; that he must take himself for better or for worse, as his portion; thal, though the wide... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1903 - 278 pages
...come. — LONGFELLOW. (6) There is a time in every man's experience when he arrives at the conclusion that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself, for better or for worse, as his portion ; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Alice F. Rollins - 1904 - 144 pages
...many a time ; For I'm facing God's bright sunlight, And the shadow lies behind. — Annie Marie Bliss. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; and though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through... | |
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