 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
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery... | |
 | 1893 - 388 pages
...that 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...wheel of Chance and shalt always drag her after thee. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden the better... | |
 | 1934 - 712 pages
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 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 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... | |
 | 1910 - 978 pages
...of arguing the point I will quote the closing paragraph from Emerson's fine essay on Self Reliance. "A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery...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... | |
 | 1931 - 788 pages
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 | 1905 - 314 pages
...than self-interest, since it leads to disastrous results to all interests concerned. Emerson says that a political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friends, or some other favourable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing... | |
 | 1971 - 360 pages
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