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" The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide ; him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because... "
The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 39
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pages
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The Permanent Elements of Religion: Eight Lectures Preached Before the ...

William Boyd Carpenter - 1889 - 494 pages
...world without them. Even those who most mightily decry them are possessed of them. Emerson said: " As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." 1 There may be truth in this; doubtless our weak and blind prayers are often the expression of our...
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The Permanent Elements of Religion: Eight Lectures Preached Before the ...

William Boyd Carpenter - 1889 - 496 pages
...the world without them. Even those who most mightily decry them are possessed of them. Emerson said : "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."1 There maybe truth in this; doubtless our weak and blind prayers are often the expression...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...for the Celtic goddess (not god) Audrasta. love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...men hated him. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster,1 " the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...They say with those foolish Israelites, " Let not God epeak to us, lest we die. Speak thou, speak any man with us, and we will obey." Everywhere I am bereaved...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 pages
...honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...They say with those foolish Israelites, "Let not God epeak to us, lest we die. Speak thou, speak any man with us, and we will obey." Everywhere I am bereaved...
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Poems and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 pages
...honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...said Zoroaster, ' the blessed Immortals are swift.' " ii, 77. " He who confronts the gods without any misgiving knows heaven." iii, 108. Cf. The World-Soul,...
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Poems and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...did not need it. Wo solicitously and apologetically careas and celebrate him because he held on bis way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods love...said Zoroaster, ' the blessed Immortals are swift.' " ii, 77. " He who confronts the gods without any misgiving knows heaven." iii, 108. Cf. The World-Soul,...
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Bam Wildfire: A Character Sketch, Volume 1

Helen Mathers - 1898 - 476 pages
...honours crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift." THE book upon which Bam Wildfire had been hard at work for something over a twelvemonth, was finished,...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...said Zoroaster, "the blessed Immortals are swift.'^ 71 As rnpn'fi pi ,l_i,>N'l .III1'!! lli'il'ijSe of the Will, so are their creeds a disease of the intelle^L-....
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Introductory Lessons in English Literature: For High Schools and Academies

Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and 410 embraces him because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, "the blessed Immortals are swift." 415 2. It is for want...
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