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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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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 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 i Profits. 2 See Note 2, p. 63. being. In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add...
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Selected Essays

Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 244 pages
...can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There >s no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom; they are...can 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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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 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;...receding on the limits of the horizon. There can be no 5 excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...the eternal account. Neither can it be said, on tlie other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue;...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. It affirms...
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Die Akademie: eine Sammlung von Aufsätzen aus dem Arbeitskreis der ...

Rolf Hoffmann - 1924 - 798 pages
...Mensch eine neue Möglichkeit sittlicher Schöpfung und die Welt des Guten voll unentdeckter Weiten. »There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty... The soul refuses limits, and always affirms an Optimism, not a Pessimism«. Wenn wir dem...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 70

1892 - 970 pages
...work any harm ; it cannot work any good. It is harm inasmuch as it is worse not to be than to be. " In a virtuous action I properly am ; in a virtuous...can 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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Language As Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method

Kenneth Burke - 1966 - 534 pages
...will have good results, but play down the reciprocal possibility whereby good might have evil results. "There is no penalty to virtue, no penalty to wisdom; they are proper additions to being." In brief, work up a dialectic that would rule out an ironic concept such as Veblen's "trained...
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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;...can 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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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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;...can 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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Attitudes Toward History, Third Edition: With a New Afterword

Kenneth Burke - 1984 - 450 pages
...itself. Nature, truth, virtue are the influx from thence." This shift in strategy enables him to assert: "There is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom;...the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon." Hence, in another form, we arrive at the meliorist emphasis, in a project for living by the extending...
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