 | Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1921 - 204 pages
...to be of the giant race before the flood so as to believe in their own greatness. Emerson says:— Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a 88 texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart. Ruskin, even in Praeterita,... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pages
...man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. — Tennyson. OUR friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fiber of the human heart. The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pages
...man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. — Tennyson. OUR friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fiber of the human heart. The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...company is perfectly safe, and he is not one of them, though his body is in the room. + SPIRITUAL LAWS Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...fibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals. But we have aimed at... | |
 | Rolf Hoffmann - 1924 - 798 pages
...for curiosity, and not for life. They are not to be indulged. This is to weave cobweb and not cloth. Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...of the tough fibre of the human heart. The laws of f riendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.« Und damit... | |
 | Lucy Elizabeth Lee Ewing - 1924 - 170 pages
...that is the rarest thing in this old world where often it seems as if it did not exist. Emerson says, "Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...dreams instead of the tough fibre of the human heart . We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God, which many summers and many winters must... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...for curiosity, and not for life. They are not to be indulged. This is to weave cobweb, and not cloth. Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions...a texture of wine and dreams instead of the tough fiber of the human heart. The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth - 1990 - 404 pages
...[CW 2.:ii5, 12.2,]). And the value of friendship lies in one's ability to make it develop and last: "The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of...morals. But we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit. . . . We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God, which many summers and many winters... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 pages
...excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...fibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are great, austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals. I do not wish to treat... | |
 | Jason A. Scorza - 2008 - 290 pages
...chief concerns is the vulnerability of friendship to degeneration and disintegration. Emerson explains, "Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart."32 By his own analysis, friendship cannot begin in the clouds. He writes, "I wish that friendship... | |
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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart. 
