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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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. COMPENSATION The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night. Mountain tall... | |
| Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pages
...he would conclude the lecture— with two sentences he had written in his "thought-book" days ago: Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. By midmorning Ralph Waldo Emerson had completed his lecture on "Self-Reliance." It was a rousing summons... | |
| Edward Abbey - 1988 - 242 pages
...highest point of view. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. From Society and Solitude: If you would learn to write, 'tis in the street you must learn it. ... The... | |
| David Stouck - 1991 - 260 pages
...Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself (893). The essay concludes with a final reminder that 'Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles' (909). Even a cursory review of 'Self-Reliance' reveals it to be most relevant to Ross's novel. Such... | |
| Jan Cooper - 1996 - 130 pages
...undeceive ourselves." "That is very true, my dear Augustine," added Emerson who had joined the group. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." A Taoist monk entered the discussion quietly with, "If you are inwardly free of fighting, no one will... | |
| Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 412 pages
...Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well. 8 Nothing can bring you pence but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. 9 Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation- are the sanctuary of the intuitions. NEW COLLECTION... | |
| Gnana Stanley Jaya Kumar, B. V. Muralidhar - 1997 - 186 pages
...great American transcendentalist said: "Nothing is greater than the integrity of your own personality". "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." Well, there is profound meaning and significance in these words if one ponders deeply and seriously.... | |
| Dan Wakefield - 1997 - 272 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. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." In Emerson, had I read him back then, I could even have found a passage from "Compensation" to offer... | |
| Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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. 18 Friedrich Nietzsche, The G-ay Science Raised in a religious household in Prussia, Friedrich Nietzsche... | |
| Oscar Wilde - 1999 - 260 pages
...esteem of each other, by what each has, and not by what each is'. The essay ends with this message: 'Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles' (49, 51). The true . . . man is: originally italicized. 8: except himself: Emerson in 'Compensation'... | |
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