 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...moral duty. A self-denial no lest 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. 1 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can... | |
 | 1903 - 668 pages
...worshiped are documents of character," and the world is the same now as in the past. Emerson says: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please ; you can never have both." He who wishes repose will take the course which attracts the loudest applause ; the most substantial... | |
 | Sheldon Leavitt - 1903 - 262 pages
...keep his mental powers in a state of plasticity and his thoughts limpid. The Sage of Concord says: " God offers to every mind 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... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 304 pages
...other:' To all the Three; for they by their union first constitute the True Religion.' ''—Carlyle. " God offers to every mind 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... | |
 | 1904 - 214 pages
...corrects thy error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in. tfaj tvcox. —Marcus Morning. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you cannot have both.—Emerson. NOVEMBER 14. Evening. Do not covet that which it is not... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1905 - 76 pages
...Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle. 2 vols. WH Allen & Co., London, 1881. XI. EMERSON. " God offers to every mind 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... | |
 | 1903 - 416 pages
...view that this seems inconsistent. We must be ready to move forward in order to retain what we have. "God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take what you please—you can never have both." "Men walk as prophecies of the next age." It is what we... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - 1906 - 472 pages
...out the prejudice of our judgment against Chinamen. Emerson says: (Essays, 1st Series, Intellect.) "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please, you can never have both. . . , He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - 1906 - 466 pages
...out the prejudice of our judgment against Chinamen. Emerson says: (Essays, 1st Series, Intellect.) "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please, you can never have both. . . . He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
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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... 
