 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 606 pages
...on this planet. Then all things are at risk." "God enters by a private door into every individual." "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, —you can never have both." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose...that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. dulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed,... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1896 - 120 pages
...the modern sage out of the deeps of spiritual calm in which he evermore abides. He speaks and says, " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...pendulum man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets.... | |
 | British Homoeopathic Society - 1896 - 564 pages
...Give the medicine until improvement begins, then omit until improvement ceases." Every mind is offered its choice between truth and repose. Take which you...pendulum, man oscillates. He, in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy he meets (most likely his father's).... | |
 | British Homoeopathic Society - 1896 - 522 pages
...Give the medicine until improvement begins, then omit until improvement ceases." Every mind is offered its choice between truth and repose. Take which you...pendulum, man oscillates. He, in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy he meets (most likely his father's).... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 270 pages
...them catch and hang your own experiences, till what was once his thought has become your character. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please; you can never have both." " Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will." " It is impossible for a man to be... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1899 - 384 pages
...shutting out every consideration that could shake or qualify cherished beliefs. ' God,' says Emerson, ' offers to every mind its choice between truth and...repose. Take which you please. You can never have both.' One of the strongest arguments of natural religion rests upon the fact that virtue so often fails to... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1899 - 384 pages
...shutting out every consideration that could shake or qualify cherished beliefs. ' God,' says Emerson, ' offers to every mind its choice between truth and...repose. Take which you please. You can never have both.' One of the strongest arguments of natural religion rests upon the fact that virtue so often fails to... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth and forego all things for that, and choose defeat...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1900 - 354 pages
...shutting out every consideration that could shake or qualify cherished beliefs. ' God,' says Emerson, ' offers to every mind its / choice between truth and...repose. Take which you please. You can never have both.' One of the strongest arguments of natural religion rests upon the fact that virtue so often fails to... | |
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truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as... 
