 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 360 pages
...moral 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...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 618 pages
...moral 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...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 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...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 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 and pain, s sure in thought is ttiexeb^ God offers to everymind its choice between truth and repose. Take which... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 568 pages
...duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint'i, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love... | |
 | Anthony Wilson Thorold (bp. of Winchester.) - 1885 - 108 pages
...knowledge." Never consent to sit down in a base content, as if you had plumbed the well of Divine wisdom. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both. Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 574 pages
...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...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.”... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 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."... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 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."... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 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."... | |
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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... 
