 | William Channing Gannett - 1890 - 142 pages
...would he were nobler Than to love met" And we know so well the truth of Emerson's other word, that " in the last analysis love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men" — know that so well that, in a half-fear lest we should gain under false pretenses the love we crave,... | |
 | William Channing Gannett, Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1893 - 152 pages
...would he were nobler Than to love me !" And we know so well the truth of Emerson's other word, that " in the last analysis love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men" — know that so well that, in a half-fear lest we should gain under false pretenses the love we crave,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we...signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. vi The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh... | |
 | 1900 - 114 pages
...in us to the same degree it is in them: then' shall we meet as water with water : and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they. In the last analysis, ilove is only the reflection jjf a man's own worthiness from other men. JMen have sometimes exchanged... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 518 pages
...nature in us to the same degree it is in them: then shall we meet as water with water: and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we...worthiness from other men. Men have sometimes exchanged A HAPPY, SUCCESSFUL LIFE 389 names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 464 pages
...nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water ; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we...they would signify that in their friend each loved bis own soul. The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we...analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthi-' ness from other men. Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...free ; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. THE PROBLEM FEBRUARY FIFTH In the last analysis, love is only the reflection...signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. FRIENDSHIP FEBRUARY SIXTH Most of life seems to be mere advertisement of faculty : information is given... | |
 | Edward Carpenter - 1906 - 316 pages
...A. is to be one. ... In the last Waldo analysis love is only the reflection of a man's own Emerson worthiness from other men. Men have sometimes exchanged...the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood. . . . Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...best to pay scot and lot as they go along, and that a man often pays dear for a small frugality. I OVE is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from...would signify that in their friend each loved his own soi «L "THE least activity of the intellectual powers redeems us in a degree from the influences of... | |
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... no consuetudes or habits of society, would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with them as we desire, —but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should... 
