 Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason.  Twelve Essays - Page 63by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance : it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities if you can thereby help the...shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance : it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the...shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 pages
...prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance : it is infirmity of will. Begret calamities if you can thereby? help the sufferer;...shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance : it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the...shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the... | |
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...unites with goodwill and love, it gets at the heart of man and the world. 21. Our sympathy is often base. We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down...shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. 22. It is no greater charity to clothe a man's body, than apparel the nakedness of... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance : it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities if you can thereby help the...shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance : it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the...shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Newcomb - 1897 - 272 pages
...our better nature, which is thoroughly equipped for all our times of need. XXIII. SYMPATHY AS A VICE. We come to them who weep foolishly, and sit down and...putting them once more in communication with the soul. — Emerson. IT is a curious idea of friendship that demands attention to personal ills for the mere... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the...shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the... | |
 | 1899 - 136 pages
...sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of selfreliance ; it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities if you can thereby help the...sufferer ; } if not, attend your own work and already ihe evil begins to be repaired. Insist on yourself : never imitate. Your own gift you can present every... | |
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