A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends;... Twelve Essays - Page 40by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...when he has put his heart into his work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which...deserts him ; no muse befriends ; no invention, no hope. I Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string./ Accept the place the divine Providence... | |
| John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 290 pages
...when he has put his heart into his work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which...him ; no muse befriends ; no invention, no hope." I should like to have seen the grim visage of Carlyle, and the play upon the features of William Black... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1892 - 970 pages
...good e'er comes, of leisure idly spent ; And Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not work. Sophocles. Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string....of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Emerson. It is not many words that real wisdom prove; Breathe rather one wise thought, Select one worthy... | |
| Benn Pitman - 1892 - 202 pages
...said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. It-is-a deliverance47 which doesnot' deliver. In-the attempt his genius deserts him ; no muse befriends...invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to-that iron string. Accept'-the place the divine providence has-found for-you, the society of-your... | |
| John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 192 pages
...when he has put his heart into his work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver." "I think the most heart-whole man I ever knew was a man who had waited and watched, breaking stones... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...Eighteenth. August Nineteenth. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. August Twentieth. Accept the place the divine providence has found for...of your contemporaries, the connection of events. August Twenty-first. August Twenty-second. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a. dinner, and would... | |
| 1894 - 596 pages
...sitting and waiting patiently for his first patient, might read, possibly, the following with profit: "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence had found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 pages
...when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which...Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlika to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 344 pages
...when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which...deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope." " I do not know how it is with others when speaking on an important question," said Henry Clay; " but... | |
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