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
| Walter Barlow Stevens - 1914 - 72 pages
...advantages." And here is a summing up of advice to young men which Mr. Francis quotes from Emerson: ' ' Trust thyself ; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place Divine Providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."... | |
| Henry Harrison Brown - 1914 - 234 pages
...God bless us every one. —Tiny Tin >v> Henry Harrison Brown, 589 H .light St. San Francisco, Cal. Trust thyself! Every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place Divine Providence has found for you. Emerson. I trust myself! My heart vibrates to that iron strinar.... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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. always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 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...deserts him; no muse befriends ; no invention, no hope. 5 Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence... | |
| Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 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. 7. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence... | |
| William Herschel Bruce - 1916 - 316 pages
...his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance that does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends, no invention, no hope". It is by doing his best in all situations, principal or subordinate, that man rises to eminence, proficiency,... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pages
...60 what a saint has felt, he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand." "Trust thyself! every heart vibrates to that iron...found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have 65 always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...60 what a saint has felt, he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand." "Trust thyself! every heart vibrates to that iron...for you, the society of your . contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have 392 MATTHEW ARNOLD genius of their age ; betraying their perception... | |
| Calvin Noyes Kendall, George Alonzo Mirick - 1918 - 350 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 does not deliver.' " COLLATERAL READINGS 1. On nature drawing : — Nature Drawing. Edited .by Henry T. Bailey. 1. On... | |
| 1919 - 966 pages
...his work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. It ¡sa deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt...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.... | |
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