 Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you ; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike, to the...  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 114by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Michael - 1988 - 214 pages
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 | Kerry C. Larson - 1988 - 298 pages
...manifests itself to the Emersonian reader most authentically when it is betrayed. "Great men have always confided themselves childlike to the genius of their...through their hands, predominating in all their being" (W 2:47). Such confidence is fortified by the aegis of the "Universal Mind" or "Oversoul" that "lies... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pages
...vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so. ... My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain,... | |
 | Jan Vester - 1989 - 300 pages
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 | John Updike - 1991 - 956 pages
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 | Richard Whelan - 1991 - 212 pages
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 | Lawrence Buell - 1993 - 236 pages
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 | Stanley Trachtenberg - 1993 - 138 pages
...that individual nonconformity can be given direction and purpose because selfreliance is God-reliance: Great men have always done so and confided themselves...of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being."... | |
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