 The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird are not theirs, have nothing of them : the world is only their lodging and table. But the poet, whose verses are to be spheral and complete, is one whom Nature cannot deceive, whatsoever face of strangeness she...  Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 318by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...strict consanguinity, and detects more likeness than variety in all her changes. We are stung by the _ desire for new thought, but when we receive a new...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the individual to it. TKUTH. — God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the individual to it. TRUTH. — God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...the individual to it. TRUTH. — God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Tako which you please — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...the overshadow ing knowledge of the world's great men, is chilled into apathy, remember — " That God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose, take which you please, — you can never have them both ! " Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...terror, with tenderness, with desire, and with grief. Neither are the artist's copies from experience ever mere copies, but always touched and softened...party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets test, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates... | |
 | Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 674 pages
...for that and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure and thought is thereby augumented. . . . God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | Maria Hall - 1868 - 410 pages
...mean the orthodoxy alluded to in " Ecce Homo " as " always easy for a thoughtless man to receive." " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please, you can never have both. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...perception of identity. We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The clond, the tree, the turf, the bird, are not theirs, have...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but ho shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between trulh and repose. Take which you please, — you can never...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. ]!;, in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the... | |
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