 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 318 pages
...but they never take the single step that would bring them there. A man is like a bit of Labrador 5 spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand,...particular angle ; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special talent,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...at the moon and stars, I seem stationary, and they to hurry. December Twelfth. December Thirteenth. A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no...particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. December Fourteenth. We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...Cow/ey. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful, is man! — Young. A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no...particular angle ; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. — Emerson. To despise our own species is the price we must too often pay for a knowledge... | |
 | 1897 - 308 pages
...Giles. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! — Young. A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no...particular angle ; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. — Emerson. 'Tis man's worst deed To let the " things that have been " run to waste, And in... | |
 | John Beattie Crozier - 1898 - 626 pages
...him, and say whether this is not so. What a fine piece of insight, for example, is the following, ' A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no...in your hand until you come to a particular angle, and then it shows deep and beautiful colours. There is no universal adaptation or applicability in... | |
 | John Beattie Crozier - 1898 - 626 pages
...him, and say whether this is not so. What a fine piece of insight, for example, is the following, ' A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no...in your hand until you come to a particular angle, and then it shows deep and beautiful colours. There is no universal adaptation or applicability in... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1900 - 82 pages
...was clearer and keener in particulars because of his many-sidedness. It was Emerson who said that " a man is like a bit of Labrador spar which has no...particular angle, then it shows deep and beautiful colors," but in Dr. Brinton's life each facet and angle had its lustre. . Darwin regretted that his... | |
 | Arthur T. Pierson - 1900 - 506 pages
...announcement of her intentions, which she was privately making known to friends. 591 Hidden virtues. A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful... | |
 | Francis Nathan Peloubet - 1901 - 432 pages
...of experience and of vision often leads to false and harsh criticism of others. A man, says Emerson, is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it, till you come to a certain angle ; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There are many actions... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 518 pages
...him for some one pursuit, and bend all his energies to bring it to perfection. Emerson has said that a man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no...particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. The greatest benefactors of mankind have avoided dissipating their energies, and are known... | |
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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. 
