 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...the fact. No chart of nature hangs up in his windows to shut out nature herself. How well he says: " If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man in... | |
 | Augusta Choate, Gertrude Hartman - 1912 - 174 pages
...circle of stiff curled black hair, had the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. 38. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. 39. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. 40. You seem to me as Dian in her... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1920 - 76 pages
...156 — To escape criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing .50 .25 157 — To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...those heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in... | |
 | John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...phrasing memorable detached thoughts is well illustrated in such passages as these: To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...to all the members. America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous. — EMANCIPATION ADDRESS * 1 am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody...if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. — NATURE * L/ove, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pages
...and folding about herself anew.1 — William James, A Pluralistic Universe. 2 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...from those heavenly worlds will separate between him 1 Reprinted \vith the permission of Mr. Henry James and of Longmans, Green & Co. and what he touches.... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pages
...and folding about herself anew.1 — William James, A Pluralistic Universe. 2 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...from those heavenly worlds will separate between him 1 Reprinted with the permission of Mr. Henry James and of Longmans, Green & Co, and what he touches.... | |
 | Sheila Kaye-Smith - 1927 - 340 pages
...thought he sounded conceited at first, but now I think the opposite. I like that bit about the stars — 'if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.' I always look at the stars when I am undressing at nights, and wishing I was alone. I like, too, to... | |
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