 Every man's words who speaks from that life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. I dare not speak for it. My words do not carry its august sense ; they fall short and cold. Only itself can inspire whom it will,...  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Man and Teacher - Page 16by Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1884 - 44 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. I dare not speak for it. My words do not carry its august sense ; they fall short...inspire whom it will, and behold ! their speech shall lt lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising ot the wind. Yet I desire, even by profane words,... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
...do not carry its august sense; they all fall short and cold. Only itself can 1 The American Scholar. inspire whom it will, and behold! their speech shall...and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind. No one can tell precisely what part of the higher life is of God alone, what from man, and no one need... | |
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - 1905 - 352 pages
...deep, Emerson's spiritual experi111-1 iii - ence was. not dwell in the same thought on their own part. Only itself can inspire whom it will, and behold !...and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind. In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment, we have come from our remote station on the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. I dare not speak for it. My words do not carry its august sense; they fall short...universal as the rising of the wind. Yet I desire, even by profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity, and to report... | |
 | Oscar Kuhns - 1908 - 296 pages
...the vision of that wisdom can the horoscope of the ages be read. Words cannot carry its august sense. Only itself can inspire whom it will; and behold!...and sweet and universal, as the rising of the wind." And for him who has attained unto this vision this is the reward, " that the ideal shall be real to... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. I dare not speak for it. My words do not carry its august sense; they fall short...universal as the rising of the wind. Yet I desire, even by profane words, if sacred I may not use, to indicate the heaven of this deity and to report... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 pages
...sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. I dare not speak for it. My words do not carry its august sense; they fall short...universal as the rising of the wind. Yet I desire, even by profane words, if sacred I may not use, to indicate the heaven of this deity and to report... | |
 | William Walker Atkinson - 1910 - 228 pages
...sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. I dare not speak for it. My words do not carry its august sense; they fall short...universal as the rising of the wind. Yet I desire, even by profane words, if sacred I may not use, to indicate the heaven of this deity, and to report... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 pages
...sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. I dare not speak for it. My words do not carry its august sense; they fall short...universal as the rising of the wind. Yet I desire, even by profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity, and to report... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 pages
...sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. I dare not speak for it. My words do not carry its august sense; they fall short...universal as the rising of the wind. Yet I desire, even by profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity, and to report... | |
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