 Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius...  Essays: First series - Page 45by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 180 pages
...Every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the Divine Providence has found for you. Great men have always done so and confided themselves...of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.'... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 176 pages
...Every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the Divine Providence has found for you. Great men have always done so and confided themselves...of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.'... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1899 - 758 pages
...Providence assigned them. Sir, the words are yours which I quote. You have told your people that they are now men, and must accept, in the highest mind, the same destiny, — that they are not minors and invalids in a protected corner, but guides, redeemers, and... | |
 | Second Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1900 - 264 pages
...the place the Divine Providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided...of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...place the divine ' providence has found for you, the society > of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind^he same transcendent destin}- ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...place the divine providence has so found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided...trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through 55 their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so and confided...of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.... | |
 | 1902 - 510 pages
...Providence assigned them. Sir, the words are yours which I quote. You have told your people that they are now men, and must accept, in the highest mind, the same destiny, — that they are not minors and invalids in a protected corner, but guides, redeemers, and... | |
 | 1902 - 512 pages
...Providence assigned them. Sir, the words are yours which I quote. You have told your people that they are now men, and must accept, in the highest mind, the same destiny, — that they are not minors and invalids in a protected corner, but guides, redeemers, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betray- « ing their perception that the absolutely trustwor- • thy was seated at their heart, working through • their...destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected cor- «~Ti ner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but I guides, redeemers and benefactors, obeying... | |
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