Some damning circumstance always transpires. The laws and substances of nature water, snow, wind, gravitation - become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All... Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 90by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...nature — water, snow, wind, gravitation — become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action....good man has absolute good, which like fire turns everything to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm ; but as the royal armies sent against... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort. . . . 20. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action....mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic 240 equation. The good man has absolute good, which, like fire, turns everything to its own nature,... | |
| George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
..."""Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass." On the other hand, the law holds with equal surety for all right action. " Love, and you shall be loved....fire, turns every thing to its own nature, so that you can not do him any harm." ' Fromthis_law of compensation and retribution, as F.mprsnn intprpvi't* i^'ffnAV... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1882 - 448 pages
...shall never take her without her answer, unless you take her without her tongue. — Shakespeare. 3=55 Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically...as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. — Emerson. 3256 One of the very best things I have ever done in my life is to have nipped in the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...nature, — water, snow, wind, gravitation, — become penalties to the thief. On the other hand the law holds with equal sureness for all right action....against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...nature, — water, snow, wind, gravitation, — become penalties to the thief. On the other hand the law holds with equal sureness for all right action....against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...nature — water, snow, wind, gravitation — become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action....good man has absolute good, which like fire turns everything to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm ; but as the royal armies sent against... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 pages
...nature — water, snow, wind, gravitation — become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action....good man has absolute good, which like fire turns everything to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm ; but as the royal armies sent against... | |
| Richard Metcalf - 1883 - 226 pages
...pressed down, shaken together, and running over." For like begets like ; or, as Mr. Emerson puts it : " Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically...good man has absolute good, which, like fire, turns everything to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm ; but, as the royal armies sent out... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...nature, — water, snow, wind, gravitation, — become penalties to the thief. On the other hand the law holds with equal sureness for all right action....against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove... | |
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