 A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself....  Essays - Page 81by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Neil Baldwin - 2007 - 280 pages
...thematic wheel around full circle, in modern American English this time instead of classical Latin, "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."37 The true believers of the persevering self-made man took Ralph Waldo Emerson as the... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 pages
...of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 2007 - 604 pages
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 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...Emerson does precisely this throughout this powerful Jeremiad. He ends with an exhortation and a warning. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." 61 Such a principled existence, however, does not come without a cost. In a later essay, "Character"... | |
 | Paul Scott - 2007 - 1042 pages
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 | Paul Scott - 2007 - 1034 pages
...sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spitits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring yon peace but yourself. Nothing can bring yon peace but the trimuph... | |
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