 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...  Essays - Page 73by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with...and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of... | |
 | Paul Scott - 1971 - 404 pages
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 | Joel Porte - 1982 - 266 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with...and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of... | |
 | Michael T. Gilmore - 2010 - 192 pages
...is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with...acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shall sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations" (CW 2 : 50). Emerson's own tendencies toward Idealism... | |
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