 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 312by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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,... | |
 | James Jackson Putnam - 1915 - 204 pages
...consists in an eternal seeking, a never-ending attempt to find ever new and richer meanings in life. "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, — you can never have both." The powerful thinker, Lessing, whose " Nathan der Weise " has stimulated speculation in so many minds,... | |
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