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" 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 100
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pages
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Prose masterpieces from modern essayists [ed. by G.H.P.

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...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

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...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

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...
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Essays

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...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

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...
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The Unitarian, Volume 11

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...
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Mind, Volume 1

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. —...
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Select Essays and Poems

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...
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Mind, Volume 1

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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