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
| David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...politics, 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...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
| 1900 - 868 pages
...broad field of medical vision, from which eventuates the cultured medical man. Emerson tells us that God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please— you can never have both. In medicine, the physician in whom the love of repose predominates, will never advance much beyond... | |
| Mary Perry King - 1900 - 152 pages
...riddle of existence which Emerson has expressed in the saying, " God gives to every man the choice 4 between truth and repose; take which you please, you can never have both." In this dilemma, as he came dimly to recognize it, man cast about for a path of escape. Hampered by... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 pages
...direction that I am out of the hoop of your horizon. Is it any better if the student, to avoid this offense and to liberalize himself, aims to make a mechanical...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 110 pages
...rfgb,t architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy. Jffebruarg nine (~JOD offers to every mind its choice between truth and...Take which you please — you can never have both. Intellect jfc brnarg l«t HP HE key to every man is his thought. Circles Jflcbrimry rlrlicti TF we... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 464 pages
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.1 God offers to every mind its choice between truth...love of repose predominates will accept the first creeds the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets... | |
| 1903 - 668 pages
...worshiped are documents of character," and the world is the same now as in the past. Emerson says: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please ; you can never have both." He who wishes repose will take the course which attracts the loudest applause ; the most substantial... | |
| Sheldon Leavitt - 1903 - 262 pages
...channels. Happy is he who can keep his mental powers in a state of plasticity and his thoughts limpid. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love... | |
| Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
...view that this seems inconsistent. We must be ready to move forward in order to retain what we have. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take what you please — you can never have both." "Men walk as prophecies of the next age." It is what... | |
| 1912 - 214 pages
...at the outset in a quotation from K.oaa. Emerson's essay on Intellect : the passage which begins " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. . . ." And so Jacob, the truth-seeker, wanders blind and unheroic through life, striving to relate... | |
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