 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself...in hope. You will not fear that I am enjoining too stern an asceticism. Ask not, Of what use is a scholarship that systematically retreats ? or, Who is... | |
 | 1887 - 580 pages
...doctor, usually commands most practice, and is likely to make the largest fortune. Make yourselves necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread ; and if not great store of it, yet such as shall not deprive you of your property in that which is common to all... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
...twenty-five hundred copies, says George Willis Cooke, had been disposed of in two days. His words, " Make yourself necessary to the world and mankind will give you bread," had proved true. When he was sixty-three, Harvard College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn ? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself...in hope. You will not fear, that I am enjoining too stern an asceticism. Ask not, Of what use is a scholarship that systematically retreats ? or, Who is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself...in hope. You will not fear, that I am enjoining too stern an asceticism. Ask not, Of what use is a scholarship that systematically retreats ? or, Who is... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 574 pages
...traverse the starlit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn ? Truth also has its roof and bed and board. Make yourself...men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope." The next address Emerson delivered was "The Method of Nature, "before the Society of the Adelphi, in... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...traverse the starlit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn ? Truth also has its roof and bed and board. Make yourself...men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope." The next address Emerson delivered was "The Method of Nature," before the Society of the Adelphi, in... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...traverse the starlit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof and bed and board. Make yourself...men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope." The next address Emerson delivered was "The Method of Nature," before the Society of the Adelphi, in... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...traverse the starlit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn ? Truth also has its roof and bed and board. Make yourself...men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in naI ture, and in hope." The next address Emerson delivered was "The Method of Nature," before the Society... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself...in hope. You will not fear that I am enjoining too stern an asceticism. Ask not, Of what use is a scholarship that systematically retreats ? or, Who is... | |
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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world and mankind will give you bread, and... 
