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" 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 269
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pages
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A Soldier of Life

Hugh De Sélincourt - 1917 - 350 pages
...ran: " Emerson would have been a great man if he had written nothing else than the one sentence: ' God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both'" I smiled merely at his habitual exaggeration, and with my collect in my mind wondered what Emerson...
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The Story of a Varied Life: An Autobiography

William Stephen Rainsford - 1922 - 516 pages
...make no excuse for them. They were healthy and inevitable. In his essay on Intellect, Emerson says: God offers" to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you cannot have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom love of repose predominates,...
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The Story of a Varied Life: An Autobiography

William Stephen Rainsford - 1922 - 518 pages
...for them. They were healthy and inevitable. In his essay on Intellect, Emerson says: God offers'to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you cannot have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom love of repose predominates,...
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Some Makers of American Literature

William Lyon Phelps - 1923 - 210 pages
...men." In his own mental poise, he seems to me to have belied one of his most profound utterances — "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." In some fashion as inexplicable as his intuitions, he managed without compromising to take both. So...
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My Little Book of Emerson: Being an Introd. to Emerson and a Breviary of His ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...his poetry has a decided prose quality, fie had an immortal thirst for Truth, and said, "God gives every mind its choice between Truth and Repose. Take which you please; you can never have both." No one can read Emerson with his denunciation of moral cowardice, his appeal for personal independence,...
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The Life of Thomas Hardy

Ernest Brennecke - 1925 - 314 pages
...derived from the facts of life. If it is true that, as Emerson once said, "God offers to ) every mind his choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both," then Thomas Hardy has forever forsworn the delights of repose and calm. Particularly in his earlier...
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At the Cross-roads: A Plea for the Ethics of a Democracy

"Diogenes" (pseud.) - 1926 - 104 pages
...this restlessness that spurs on to strife and conquest. "God offers to every mind," Emerson thinks, "its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can not have both." We seem to be enveloped by the force of achievement and the search for truth should...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 247

1928 - 418 pages
...class-room, is said to be one of the most prominent men " on the campus." " God offers to every mind the choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both." So says Emerson, the American master of wisdom. Perhaps in the fortunate and somewhat artificial life...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 79

1897 - 902 pages
...them catch and hang your own experiences, till what was onoe his thought has become your character. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please ; you can never have both." " Discontent is want of self-reliance ; it is infirmity of will." " It is impossible for a man to be...
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Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1976: Hearings Before a ...

U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense - 1975 - 174 pages
...not observed, but to do so means applying oneself to the task daily. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said : "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." Achievement is not miraculous. Anything that is done results first from careful preparation, and an...
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