A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends;... Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 40by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...when he has put his heart into his work and done Ids best ; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which...heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place me qivine providence has found for you, thf?"Hft(^pt,v OT your contemporaries, the connection of events.... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch - 1975 - 264 pages
...thunder into Chatham's voice, and dignity into Washington's port, and America into Adam's eye. . . . Accept the place the divine providence has found for...of your contemporaries, the connection of events, . . . transcendent destiny; and . . . [become] guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which...found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius... | |
| Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...verweist auf Psalm 115: "Not unto us give glory, but unto thy name." Cf. "Self-Reliance", CW II, p. 28: "Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius... | |
| Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz - 1988 - 372 pages
...participate in the purposes of the Almighty. 'Trust thyself he says at the outset of 'SelfReliance', 'every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the Divine Providence has found for you. . . who would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your... | |
| John Dewey - 1993 - 276 pages
...said that "society is everywhere in conspiracy against its members" also said, and in the same essay, "accept the place the divine providence has found...of your contemporaries, the connection of events." Now, when events are taken in disconnection and considered apart from the interactions due to the selecting... | |
| Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - 1994 - 278 pages
...'thus I willed it,'" Emerson's self-reliance is a mode of self-trust that calls upon the individual to "accept the place the divine providence has found...of your contemporaries, the connection of events." Where Nietzsche speaks in the far-future tense, addressing unknown, future friends, rare free spirits... | |
| Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pages
...yesterdays are the blocks with which we build, says the poet again. We cannot choose the material. Accept the place the Divine Providence has found for you. The society of your contemporaries and the connection o{ events, says Emerson in that, to me, epochal paragraph. I pass it on to you.... | |
| Alan Ryan - 1995 - 426 pages
...and gain a content as they operate in remaking conditions."59 Appealing to Emerson's injunction to "accept the place the divine providence has found...of your contemporaries, the connection of events," Dewey ends with this thought: "To gain an integrated individuality, each of us needs to cultivate his... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...neighbour, i ho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. 3302 Accept the pla 3303 All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. 3304 All history is but the lengthened shadow... | |
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