 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,...  Essays, First Series - Page 269by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 110 pages
...rfgb,t architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy. Jffebruarg nine (~JOD offers to every mind its choice between truth and...Take which you please — you can never have both. Intellect jfc brnarg l«t HP HE key to every man is his thought. Circles Jflcbrimry rlrlicti TF we... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pages
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.1 God offers to every mind its choice between truth...love of repose predominates will accept the first creeds the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets... | |
 | 1903 - 668 pages
...worshiped are documents of character," and the world is the same now as in the past. Emerson says: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please ; you can never have both." He who wishes repose will take the course which attracts the loudest applause ; the most substantial... | |
 | Sheldon Leavitt - 1903 - 262 pages
...channels. Happy is he who can keep his mental powers in a state of plasticity and his thoughts limpid. " 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... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
...view that this seems inconsistent. We must be ready to move forward in order to retain what we have. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take what you please — you can never have both." "Men walk as prophecies of the next age." It is what... | |
 | 1912 - 214 pages
...at the outset in a quotation from K.oaa. Emerson's essay on Intellect : the passage which begins " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. . . ." And so Jacob, the truth-seeker, wanders blind and unheroic through life, striving to relate... | |
 | 1904 - 214 pages
...corrects thy error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in thy error. NOVEMBER 14. Morning. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you cannot have both. — Emerson. Evening. Do not covet that which it is not lawful for thee to have.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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