 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. January Twenty-first. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of your principles. January Twenty-second. Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine; Stanch and strong the tendrils... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...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... | |
 | 1896 - 234 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...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. ANALYSIS OF SELF-RELIANCE. THE theme here is directly named, and distinctly spoken too many times,... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 pages
...additions of being. In a virtuous act I properly am : in a virtuous act I add to the world" ; again : "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." With all our centuries of creed-making and creed breaking, of persecution and martyrdom, of intolerance... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. g. COWPER— TVie Task. Bk. II. L. 1. river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever 1 A. SCOTT — Lady of the Lake h. EMERSON — Essays. Of Self -Reliance. Breathe soft, ye winds ! ye waves, in silence sleep! t. GAY—... | |
 | 1898 - 946 pages
...fraction of Time encircled by Eternity, his hand-breadths of Space encircled by Infinitude. — Carlyle. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. — Emerson. The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favourable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do...peace but the triumph of principles. COMPENSATION [VER since I was a boy I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation: for it seemed to me when... | |
 | 1899 - 136 pages
...as a man puts off all foreign support and stands alone that I see him to be strong and to prevail. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. " FROM COMPENSATION." For everything you have missed, you have gained something else ; and for everything... | |
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