Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue ; no penalty to wisdom ; they are proper additions of being. In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add... Essays: First series - Page 100by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
| Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 350 pages
...the eternal account. Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue...be no excess to love ; none to knowledge ; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. The soul refuses limits, and always... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...the eternal account. Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue...be no excess to love ; none to knowledge ; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. The soul refuses limits, and always... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...the eternal account. Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue...no penalty to wisdom ; they are proper additions of l Profits. 2 See Note 2, p. 63. being. In a virtuo js action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...subject to curse the wine, when we lioiild rather impute it to ourselves tor the excess. — Erasmus. There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. — Emerson. He who indulges his... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 pages
...the eternal account. Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue...darkness receding on the limits of the horizon. There caii be no excess to love ; none to knowledge ; nonb to beauty, when these attributes are considered... | |
| 1896 - 374 pages
...understanding also ; but should we not see it, this deadly deduction makes square the eternal account. being. In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous...be no excess to love ; none to knowledge ; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. The soul refuses limits, and always... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 pages
...nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe"; and elsewhere : "There is no penalty to virtue, no penalty to wisdom...they are proper additions of being. In a virtuous act I properly am : in a virtuous act I add to the world" ; again : "Nothing can bring you peace but... | |
| 1898 - 404 pages
...that, as the oldest languages are the most perfect, so also are the oldest religions. — Schopenhauer. THERE is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom:...can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty — when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. The soul refuses all limits. —... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 pages
...eternal account. 45. Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue...be no excess to love ; none to knowledge ; none to beauty ; when 44. If a criminal is not caught, does he escape punishment? Cf . 16. Why do we feel defrauded... | |
| 1898 - 404 pages
...that, as the oldest languages are the most perfect, so also are the oldest religions.—Schopenhauer. THERE is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom:...can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty—when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. The soul refuses all limits.—Emerson.... | |
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