 A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but...  The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, - Page 81by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Constance M. Whishaw - 1908 - 402 pages
...flashy pleasures we shall find ourselves possessed of joys transporting and ever lasting." SENECA. " NOTHING can bring you peace but yourself, nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principle." EMERSON. 320 Discontent NOVEMBER 16 " DISCONTENT is want of self-reliance ; it is infirmity... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. COMPENSATION EVER since I was a boy I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation; for it seemed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it....but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the 5 triumph of principles. HEROISM " Paradise is under the shadow of swords." — Mahomet. 1. IN the... | |
 | Elizabeth Chase Regnier - 1911 - 82 pages
...It is said that we live in 97 per cent subconsciousness; can we watch the 3 per cent today? 29th — "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." 30th — Put all of yourself into the work you are engaged in today; try to love the thing or employment... | |
 | Mary Fisher - 1912 - 330 pages
...sweet. Emerson, my priest and prophet, says : ' Some favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it....can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.' As long as sight and hearing remain with you, and you are not in terrible physical pain, and your two... | |
 | James Jackson Putnam - 1915 - 204 pages
...the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it....can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." — RW EMERSON. IN spite of the innumerable partial influences in obedience to which we act, our motives... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it....can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE [Born at Salem, Massachusetts, July 4, 1804; died at Plymouth, New Hampshire, May... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. COMPENSATION EVEE since I was a boy I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation ; for it seemed... | |
 | 1916 - 350 pages
...conversation 1 let his be words of fate. . . . Some favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it....can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. ... A high aim reacts on the means, on the days, on the organs of the body. A high aim is curative... | |
 | Elijah Voorhees Brookshire - 1916 - 530 pages
...the utter vanity of expecting permanent good as a result of outward worldly considerations, and says: "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." We are told that this mighty man of God, who went to "the mountain of God, even to Horeb," came face... | |
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