 | Ferdinand Cowle Iglehart - 1919 - 466 pages
...the fructifying influence of a life which has no parallel in our annals. "He is great," says Emerson, "who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." The life of Theodore Roosevelt presents strange contrasts in its constant escape from the limitations... | |
 | Samuel Gordon Heiskell - 1920 - 722 pages
...who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world." Emerson: "He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others." Longfellow : "The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they,... | |
 | Clayton Meeker Hamilton - 1920 - 290 pages
...subtlest service that is rendered by great people to the ordinary public. " He is great," said Emerson, " who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others " ; and again, " Every one can do his best thing easiest " : but the philosopher omitted the important... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1921 - 660 pages
...the whole worth of mankind a good which we can not attain by following the lead of another people. "He is great who is what he is from nature and who never reminds us of others." Let us not run after the ways of another people. Let us also not run from the ways of another people.... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1921 - 694 pages
...the whole worth of mankind a good which we can not attain by following the lead of another people. " He is great who is what he is from nature and who never reminds us of others." Let us not run after the ways of another people. Let us also not run from the ways of another people.... | |
 | 1922 - 558 pages
...relations; whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. IT was my privilege to meet Dr. Bell only once, upon the occasion of a meeting of the Board of Directors... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...falterers who ask for certainty. GEORGE ELIOT — The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. I. 56th line from end. 17 t V. Sc. 6. 6 Frei EMERSON — Essays. Second Series. Uses of Great Men. is Nature never sends a great man into the planet,... | |
 | Homer John Smith - 1923 - 362 pages
...glorious who was not laborious. — FRANKLIN 3. Accuracy is the twin brother of Honesty. — SIMMONS 4. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. — EMERSON 5. There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. — RUSKIN... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1923 - 572 pages
...fact is that Emerson is an individual and defies classification. He illustrates his own saying that " he is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." On two points, however, all the critics are agreed: that Emerson was always a moralist, a preacher... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...Add honesty to him, and they might have called him Hundred Million. CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY * rde is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. — USES OF GREAT MEN + U nhappily, almost no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some... | |
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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. 
