 | "Diogenes" (pseud.) - 1926 - 104 pages
...this restlessness that spurs on to strife and conquest. "God offers to every mind," Emerson thinks, "its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can not have both." We seem to be enveloped by the force of achievement and the search for truth should... | |
 | 1928 - 418 pages
...class-room, is said to be one of the most prominent men " on the campus." " God offers to every mind the choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both." So says Emerson, the American master of wisdom. Perhaps in the fortunate and somewhat artificial life... | |
 | 1897 - 902 pages
...them catch and hang your own experiences, till what was onoe his thought has become your character. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please ; you can never have both." " Discontent is want of self-reliance ; it is infirmity of will." " It is impossible for a man to be... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1982 - 782 pages
...felt, not observed. But to do so means applying oneself to the task daily. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "God offers to every mind Its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. " No professional man has the right to prefer his own personal peace to the happiness of mankind; his... | |
 | Merton M. Sealts, Professor Merton M Sealts, Jr. - 1982 - 446 pages
...Moby-Dick, and the distinctive phrasing of Melville's 1849 letter to Duyckinck about "Emerson's rainbow": 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... | |
 | George Monteiro - 1988 - 196 pages
...his labor (and in the poem's as well), the farmer-poet illustrates Emerson's meaning when he wrote: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates."6 We do not know for certain in the end whether Frost's "fact" is "true poetry, and the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her froth. John Milton (1608-1674) English poet God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1883) American essayist, port, philosopher It is the calling of great men,... | |
 | Sy Safransky - 1990 - 174 pages
...forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? — Chuang Tzu God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson All the passions produce prodigies. A gambler is capable of watching and fasting... | |
 | Philip Leroy Culbertson - 1992 - 188 pages
...consciously to seek out the company of other men who want things to be different. Again to quote Emerson: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." I hope this book offers men and mensensitive women the encouragement to choose truth over repose. At... | |
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... event, so that all the laws of nature may be read in the smallest fact. The intellect must have the like perfection in its apprehension and in its works. For this reason, an index or mercury of intellectual proficiency is the perception of identity.... 
