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" 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 81
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pages
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The Emerson Birthday-book ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...superior minds. your thing, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. MOTHING can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principle. | ET us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart, in the breadth,...
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Character and Conduct: A Book of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past ...

Constance M. Whishaw - 1908 - 402 pages
...flashy pleasures we shall find ourselves possessed of joys transporting and ever lasting." SENECA. " NOTHING can bring you peace but yourself, nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principle." EMERSON. 320 Discontent NOVEMBER 16 " DISCONTENT is want of self-reliance ; it is infirmity...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...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...but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the 5 triumph of principles. HEROISM " Paradise is under the shadow of swords." — Mahomet. 1. IN the...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think 10 good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it....can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. 1 Fortuna, the goddess of fortune or chance in Roman mythology, was represented with her eyes bound,...
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Recipe for a Happy Life

Marie West King - 1911 - 70 pages
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Fruits of the Spirit

Elizabeth Chase Regnier - 1911 - 82 pages
...It is said that we live in 97 per cent subconsciousness; can we watch the 3 per cent today? 29th — "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." 30th — Put all of yourself into the work you are engaged in today; try to love the thing or employment...
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A Valiant Woman: A Contribution to the Educational Problem

Mary Fisher - 1912 - 330 pages
...balance the sweet. Emerson, my priest and prophet, says : ' Some favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.' As long as sight and hearing remain with you, and you are not in terrible physical pain, and your two...
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The Editorial Review, Volume 7

1912 - 270 pages
...no help," says the ancient wise man. Emerson says: "A political victory * * * raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring peace but the triumph...
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Human motives

James Jackson Putnam - 1915 - 214 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." —RW EMERSON. IN spite of the innumerable partial influences in obedience to which we act, our motives...
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