 Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.  Essays: First Series - Page 44by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 432 pages
...event of each that passes. Emerson's transcendentalism speaks ahead to Rohmer's, from "Self-Reliance": "Accept the place the divine Providence has found...of your contemporaries, the connection of events." Some in my hearing have taken Emerson here to be speaking conservatively, as if not, and urging us... | |
 | David L. Marcus - 2005 - 366 pages
..."Self-Reliance" by Emerson: "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string," it said. "Accept the place divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events." What did that mean, you were supposed to give up the idea of going home and be thrilled about living... | |
 | Dan P. McAdams - 2005 - 402 pages
...live naturally and well — even heroically — must summon forth the courage to trust the inner self: Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string....done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...truth, to right and a perfect contentment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 ~ Spiritual Laws, 1896 Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string....of your contemporaries, the connection of events. ~ Emerson ~ To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope....done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope....done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their... | |
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