 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
 | 1979 - 434 pages
...thought, instantly rights himself, stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles" and "In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance" are statements in praise of the power of the Conscious Will in "Self Reliance."2 In the second part... | |
 | Dan Wakefield - 1997 - 272 pages
...reminded of that era I have just described when I read this passage from his essay on "SelfReliance": "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... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls." Leave aside those unlawful winnings, "and deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors...and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations."42 If, as Martin Eger suggests, science is successful... | |
 | Angus Jenkinson - 2003 - 292 pages
...source of strength, The strength of inner quiet. Rudolf Steiner -JJ A political victory, a rise in 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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 sfaalt always drag her after thee. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick... | |
 | Neil Baldwin - 2005 - 270 pages
...struggles and trials of the external world, leading to familiar results — "a political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend." From such conventional human accomplishments in the crucible of experience, a man's spirits are raised... | |
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