 I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.  Essays, First Series - Page 108by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Commonwealth Club of California - 1908 - 570 pages
...thanks ; they are the men who deserve tonight this lamp, and not I. I think it was Emerson who said, "So long as all that is said is said against me, I feel safe, but when I find myself covered with honeyed words of praise, I feel like one who lies helpless... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that...believes that the strength and valor of the enemy be kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist. The same guards... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...triumph, lo ! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against...feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies. In... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 632 pages
...that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies. I This passage is printed in "Compensation" (p. 118), but it is given here with those immediately preceding... | |
 | Rev. S. Pollock Linn - 1881 - 472 pages
...like the deer-skin, and when they would triumph, lo! he has passed on invulnerable. So long as all is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success; but aa soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one lying unprotected before his enemies.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is against me, I 25 feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as...Islander believes that the strength and valor of the 30 enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist. 40. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...triumph, lo! he has passed 25 on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against...unprotected before his enemies. In general, every evil to 30 which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 614 pages
...amusements, for they have no claws, no dangers. Censure and Praise.' — I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one... | |
 | Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1913 - 152 pages
...lines kept their work or their pay first in mind? NOTES NOTES THE RELATION OF WORKERS AND EMPLOYERS XI "In general every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor." EMERSON. "If you serve an ungrateful master — serve him the more." EMERSON. "Economic laws work themselves... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 244 pages
...triumph, lo! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against...the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valour of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.... | |
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