| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...the harvest. The great man makes the great thing. . . . The day is always his who works in it with serenity and great aims. The unstable estimates of... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 555 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, that this diing which they do, is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck, now at last ripe, and inviting... | |
| Eleanor Cook - 2007 - 384 pages
...identifies someone as current head of a Scottish clan, here the clan MacCullough; note also Emerson, "The great man makes the great thing. Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table" ("The American Scholar" III, para. 14, LOA ed., 65-66) — or "lies" rather than sits, for the MacCullough.... | |
| Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table. Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman;... | |
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