 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 364 pages
...cried in one fashion or another: "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Acccept 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... | |
 | William George Hoffman - 1923 - 316 pages
...deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence...of their age, betraying their perception that the eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.... | |
 | Brian Brown - 1924 - 356 pages
...soil, and let us be meek and gentle." — SAADI. Tuesday "Trust thyself: Every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence...of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being."... | |
 | 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
...deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence...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... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pages
...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. . . . Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence...connection of events. Great men have always done so. ... My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain,... | |
 | Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz - 1988 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Stanley Trachtenberg - 1993 - 138 pages
...that individual nonconformity can be given direction and purpose because selfreliance is God-reliance: Great men have always done so and confided themselves...of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being."... | |
 | 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... | |
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. 
