 God screens us evermore from premature ideas. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.  Essays, First Series - Page 160by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rev. James Gardner - 1858 - 1006 pages
...universe with man. " Not in nature, but in man," cries Emerson, " is all the beauty and worth that he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted...exalting soul for all its pride. Earth fills her lap with splendours not her own." ''The Absolute Religion," says Parker, " is derived from the real revelation,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1858 - 82 pages
...eyes arc holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face unti the time arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them; and the time when we saw them not is like a dream."—[En.] onsicfered, it were infinitely better to remain possessed by the whole tgion. of vulgar... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream. . . . There are graces in the demeanor of a polished and noble person that are lost upon the eye of... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1871 - 468 pages
...eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the time arrives when the mind is ripened : then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream. " — EMERSON. WHEN I recall what happened to me in March 1856, I am reminded of Emerson's suggestive... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...that he means when he says, "A man!s genius determines foe him the character of the universe." 3 " Not in nature, but in man, is all the beauty and worth...to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride. " 4 " Out of the human heart go, as it were, highways to the heart of every object in nature. A man... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...that he means when he says, "A man's genius determines for him the character of the universe." 3 " Not in nature, but in man, is all the beauty and worth...to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride." 4 " Out of the human heart go, as it were, highways to the heart of every object in nature. A man is... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...that he means when he says, "A man's genius determines for him the character of the universe." 3 " Not in nature, but in man, is all the beauty and worth...to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride. " 4 " Out of the human heart go, as it were, highways to the heart of every object in nature. A man... | |
 | Multum - 1872 - 154 pages
...eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not, is like a dream. EMERSON. 14. Learn the greatness of humility. Hafiz, the Persian poet says, — " At the last day,... | |
 | 1890 - 900 pages
...eyes are holden that we can not see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream." Instinctively, therefore, we seek the mental food that our minds are prepared to digest — that, namely,... | |
 | William Maude (of Birkenhead) - 1874 - 408 pages
...eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.—Emerson. LITERATURE. The Immortality of the Soul; an Inquiry into the Meaning of Words, the... | |
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