 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 269by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. THE OVER-SOUL MAY SECOND God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. INTELLECT MAY THIRD Eat thou the bread which men refuse ; Flee from the goods which from thee flee... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - 1906 - 466 pages
...every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, you can never have both. . . . He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...the first philosophy, the first political party he meets,—most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation, but he shuts the door of... | |
 | 1906 - 388 pages
...the toiler. You must not only earn your daily bread, you must earn your daily wisdom. Emerson says, "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose, take which you please, you can never have both," and your own Frances Willard, "It is not so much what comes to you as what you come to that determines... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - 1906 - 468 pages
...out the prejudice of our judgment against Chinamen. Emerson says: (Essays, 1st Series, Intellect.) "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please, you can never have both. . . . He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | 1906 - 436 pages
...the toiler. You must not only earn your daily bread, you must earn your daily wisdom. Emerson says, "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose, take which you please, you can never have both," and your own Frances Willard, "It is not so much what conies to you as what you come to that determines... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...; and the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works. OD offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you cannot have both. "THE habit, even in little and the least matters, of not appealing to any but our... | |
 | William Burgess - 1907 - 492 pages
...repose. Take which yon pleaae,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillate*, He In whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the &nt philosophy, the first political party he meets,—most likely his father's. He rrts rest, commodity... | |
 | Samuel Carlyle Bradley - 1908 - 640 pages
...the Zealots broke up in angry dispute, with nothing concluded or determined upon. LVII MARY AND HELON "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please: you can never have both." — Emerson. Days and nights have passed, and the day of the feast of the Passover is near at hand.... | |
 | John Davys Beresford - 1912 - 504 pages
...mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. . . . He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...party he meets, — most likely his father's. . . . He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat. He will... | |
 | John Davys Beresford - 1912 - 430 pages
... LIBRARY or THE I. A CANDIDATE FOR TRUTH " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. . . . He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
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