The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why ; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved... Essays, First Series - Page 294by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without...Cromwell, " never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the nse of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit... | |
| Sir Narayen Ganesh Chandavarkar - 1911 - 668 pages
...difficulties and troubles lose all fearful aspect and your powers, however small you are, lead you on. "A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whether he is going." It is a common and well-known truth that if we -wish to become efficient in anything,... | |
| 1912 - 738 pages
...the blue have had any such experience, why, let us all know it and how to fix it. The Way of Life. Nothing great was ever achieved without Enthusiasm....way of life is wonderful — it is by Abandonment. There can be no real Abandonment that leads toward the way of Achievement except we free ourselves... | |
| Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford, Arthur Newcomb - 1914 - 344 pages
...ideas, his absorption in his work exemplifies Emerson's dictum: "Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful — it is by abandonment." He shuts himself away from all interruption in his laboratory. He works for hours, oblivious of everything... | |
| Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford, Arthur Newcomb - 1916 - 512 pages
...ideas, his absorption in his work exemplifies Emerson's dictum : "Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful — it is by abandonment." He shuts himself away from all interruption in his laboratory ; he works for hours oblivious of everything... | |
| Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford, Arthur Newcomb - 1917 - 504 pages
...ideas, his absorption in his work exemplifies Emerson's dictum : "Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful — it is by abandonment." He shuts himself away from all interruption in his laboratory ; he works for hours oblivious of everything... | |
| 1917 - 266 pages
...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without...wonderful ; it is by abandonment. The great moments in history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...think from thence; but not into Shakespeare's. We are still out of doors. - SHAKESPEARE * .N othing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way...Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." - CIRCLES + 1 now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not... | |
| Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-Milnes - 1926 - 200 pages
...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why.' In other words, the soul, according to Plotinus, creates in knowing, and knows by creating ; it stamps... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...blend with new, journal entry with quotation with filler, that the reader's eye cannot differentiate. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm....way of life is wonderful: it is by abandonment": the Coleridge sentence was copied into a journal of 1835; the second was written, it would seem, in the... | |
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