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" 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 108
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pages
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...lo! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is afer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper, b long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain tssurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of >raise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies...
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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...that lies unprotected before his enemies. In general, even' evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength...
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The Evil Eye: A Casebook

Alan Dundes - 1992 - 334 pages
...well of you." 2. Cf. Emerson, Compensation: "Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against...But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken forme I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies." 3. KF Smith, "Pupula Duplex," Studies...
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Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-reliance

Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...That's pretty much what he wrote a few months later about reaction to his Divinity School address: "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...
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Compensation and Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...triumph, to! 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...
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A Year with Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...mowing, muttering in our path, and shading our day. !7 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...
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J. Frank Torres: Crusader and Judge : an Oral History

Lois Gerber Franke - 2007 - 285 pages
...of the insanity of conceit, has got moderation and real skill . . . Blame is safer than praise ... In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor . . I learn the wisdom of St. Bernard, 'nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain,...
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The Return of Christian Humanism: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, and the ...

Lee Oser - 2007 - 206 pages
...materialism, his mind foundered in a sea of doubt. But there may be something to Emerson's stodgy apothegm: "In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor." 2 The career of Chesterton stands as a victory for humankind. It represents the last major victory...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Infinitude of the Private Man

Maurice York, Rick Spaulding - 2008 - 278 pages
...the local papers. Emerson's reaction to his advocates may seem strange: "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...
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