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" 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;... "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series - Page 47
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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The American Renaissance and the Critics: The Best of a Century in Criticism

Jeanetta Boswell - 1990 - 532 pages
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Self-Reliance: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as Inspiration for Daily Living

Richard Whelan - 1991 - 212 pages
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The American Intellectual Tradition: 1630-1865

David A. Hollinger, Charles Capper - 1993 - 502 pages
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The Art of Persuasion: A National Review Rhetoric for Writers

Linda Bridges, William F. Rickenbacker - 1993 - 152 pages
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The Political Writings

John Dewey - 1993 - 276 pages
...said that "society is everywhere in conspiracy against its members" also said, and in the same essay, "accept the place the divine providence has found...of your contemporaries, the connection of events." Now, when events are taken in disconnection and considered apart from the interactions due to the selecting...
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Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience

1994 - 1211 pages
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Cohesion and Dissent in America

Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - 1994 - 278 pages
...'thus I willed it,'" Emerson's self-reliance is a mode of self-trust that calls upon the individual to "accept the place the divine providence has found...of your contemporaries, the connection of events." Where Nietzsche speaks in the far-future tense, addressing unknown, future friends, rare free spirits...
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Anglo-American Antiphony: The Late Romanticism of Tennyson and Emerson

Richard E. Brantley - 1994 - 380 pages
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Daily Strength for Daily Needs

Mary Wilder Tileston - 1994 - 384 pages
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Perspective Transformations of Dairy Graziers in Wisconsin

Paul Dietmann - 1995 - 482 pages
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