 As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet, but when the hunter came, his feet saved him, and afterwards,...  Essays: First Series - Page 121by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...the steersman in twain or to sink th boat. \ You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. " No man id ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him," said urke. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that : excludes himself from enjoyment, in the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 pages
...excludes himself from social enjoyments in attempting to appropriate them as the Exclusionist in religion shuts the door of heaven on himself in striving to shut out others. The better your house is, the wider should its doors be flung open. Have you pictures? They are made... | |
 | Ann Lee Bressler - 2001 - 216 pages
...both thinkers, "the first quality of religiousness was universality." 104 Emerson's assertion that "the exclusionist in religion does not see that he...shuts the door of heaven on himself in striving to keep out others" succinctly expressed a central message of Ballou's faith. 105 Stephen Whicher finds... | |
 | Virginia Hanson, Rosemarie Stewart, Shirley J. Nicholson, S. Nicholson - 2001 - 316 pages
...power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing. The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him. so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing. The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing. The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a 86 defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1884 - 890 pages
...christianized the world, nor abolished slavery." Exclusiveness is deadly. ''The exclusive in social life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment...heaven on himself in striving to shut out others. Treat men as pawns and ninepins, and you shall suffer as well as they. If you leave out their heart... | |
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