Go love thy infant; love thy woodchopper; be good-natured and modest; have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home. Select Essays and Poems - Page 33by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition, and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, "Go love thy infant;...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some laace ? to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...this incredible tendernes* for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Bough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the doorpost, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door - post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.'... | |
| Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
...namely, believe his own thought, express his own life, be not only " Man Thinking" but Man Acting. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. . . . Do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. . . . Every... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 526 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the affectation of lgve._ Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward. GIFTS AUGUST THIRTEENTH Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doftrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doftrine of love, when that pules... | |
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