 No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled ; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.  Every Day with Emerson - Page 73by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 99 pagesFull view - About this book
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1917 - 894 pages
...evidences of adjustment. "Nothing is secure, "says Emerson, "but life, transition, the energizing spirit People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." The cemetery is the only place for rest, and peace, and permanence. The criticism of the existing order... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...and bird and the sense of the wind ; and through his sympathy heaven and earth should talk with him. truth so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Life is a series of surprises s» We do not guess today the mood, the pleasure, the power of tomorrow,... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1921 - 260 pages
...energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." The reader will observe that Emerson in the midst of his praise of the spirit of youth gives a sly... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...energising spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant, to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in...as they are unsettled, is there any hope for them. — CIRCLES * 1 he cause of Peace is not the cause of cowardice. If Peace is sought to be defended... | |
 | Lewis Mumford - 1926 - 294 pages
...energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." The vigor of this challenge, the challenge of the ! American wilderness, the challenge of the new American... | |
 | Lewis Mumford - 1926 - 296 pages
...energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish tgJbe^&ettJ.£d-LQnIy_as far asjthey_jare_unsettlecHs there any hope for them." The vigor of this challenge,... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." (2) "They"— the English— "drink brandy like water, cannot expend their quantities of waste strength... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1928 - 318 pages
...expressed than in these lines: "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." And again, "People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." What Do People Believe? While the fact can decide no issue, it is of interest to discover what people... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1966 - 244 pages
...summed up all that was salutary in the experience of America when he wrote in the frontier accent, "People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." His challenge was met by Thoreau, the Dawn of the new day, who made a resolute attempt at self-fulfillment,... | |
 | 1937 - 396 pages
...agree with Emerson that "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," and, again, "People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." Particularly as 156 157 an educator, I am compelled to rest my reasoning about the educational process... | |
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