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" 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 73
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pages
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The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture, Volume 3

Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - 1918 - 944 pages
...the closing lines of his inspiring essay on "Self Reliance" may be found the summary of his creed: In the Will work and 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...
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Empire Club Speeches, Volume 17

1920 - 562 pages
...gamble with fate. We have all been gambling with this dreadful game of the iron dice of war. He says "A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, the return of your absent friend or some other favorable event raises your spirits and you think good...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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 always drag her after thee. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick,...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the ...

University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...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...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...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...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...or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think jjQod days are preparing for you. Do not believe...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do eart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh ! what...through glory and shame? I know not, I ask not, if g sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of...
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

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...
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American Romanticism and the Marketplace

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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