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
| University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 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... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...prayers are our regrets. Disconjgnt is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will._jRegret 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 - 1924 - 152 pages
...to be here. —CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities if you can thereby help the...own work and already the evil begins to be repaired. SELF-RELIANCE What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. . . . Hence the high caution,... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 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 - 1926 - 412 pages
...sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is th"e 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^ecret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is Jhe... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 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...as base. We come to them who weep foolishly and sit 4°wn and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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 - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
| John Durham Peters - 1999 - 308 pages
...capable of receiving: it is ever still the light of life. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, A DEFENCE OF POETRY, 1821 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and...shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "SELFRELIANCE," 1841 Because everyone knows the Christian truth,... | |
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