 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
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 364 pages
...cried in one fashion or another: "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Acccept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver - 1922 - 426 pages
...the world in which you live and which has given you life and being? Attend to Emerson when he says, "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the ^vine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 1086 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...invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to you. But the man is as it were clapped that iron string. Accept the place the into jail by his consciousness.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...squirrel-track, and ran up a tree. So does culture with us; it ends in a head-ache. — EXPERIENCE 1 rust thyself. Every heart vibrates to that iron string....found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. + — SELF-RELIANCE As to what we call the masses and common men — there are... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.l It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the...genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, nohope. ^. Ujust thyselfj every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence... | |
 | Bertrand Lyon - 1925 - 444 pages
...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...thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string. CHAPTER H THE BUGABOO OF STAGE FEIGHT " The thing that I feared hath come upon me." —THE BIBLE. THE... | |
 | 1925 - 666 pages
...measures up to the standard. "Trust thyself; no law is sacred to thee but that of thine own nature. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of contemporaries, the connection of events."6 Surely few men more steadfastly or persistently fulfilled... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...when he has put his heart into his work and done Ids best ; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which...heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place me qivine providence has found for you, thf?"Hft(^pt,v OT your contemporaries, the connection of events.... | |
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