 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 - 1876 - 300 pages
...that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God oflVrs to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have buili. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. }[.: in whom Hie love of repose predominates will... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 pages
...say, to have a church, or book, or pope that does all your thinking for you. But what says Emerson ? " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...the first philosophy, the first political party he meets—most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of... | |
 | 1894 - 494 pages
...your mind. You will not let it think freely. You suppress its spontaneous action. As Emerson says: " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please, you can never have both." That choice is now yours. You say : " I will have the comfort of keeping my opinion undisturbed, though... | |
 | Anthony Wilson Thorold (bp. of Winchester.) - 1885 - 108 pages
...knowledge." Never consent to sit down in a base content, as if you had plumbed the well of Divine wisdom. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...Art, in the hope that in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopedia, the net value of all the theories at which the world...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,... | |
 | New York State Medical Association - 1888 - 632 pages
...of " Prncul este profani ; " — both workers through life, for both had known, with Emerson, that " God offers to every mind its choice between Truth...Take which you please ; you can never have both." Clark has gone to join the great majority, leaving the greatest of legacies, the memory of his tender... | |
 | Susan Coolidge - 1890 - 382 pages
...thine ; Behold the paths the saints have trod, The paths which led them home to God. MADAME GUYON. CjOD offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you cannot have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. HIGH on the desert... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 406 pages
...apprehension, and in its works. For this reason, an index or mercury of intellectual pror ficiency is the perception of identity. We talk with accomplished...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,... | |
 | Merwin Marie Snell - 1891 - 52 pages
...Veritaa proprie invenitur in intellectu humano. S. THOMAS AQUINAS, De Veritate, Quffist. I., Art. IV. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please. RA.LPH WALDO EMERSON, Essay on Intellect. THHasbittflton, ®. C. l)g tbe 'flutbor MDCCCXCI. BY IRibil... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...on this planet. Then all things are at risk." "God enters by a private door into every individual." "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, — you can never have both." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."... | |
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