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
| Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 360 pages
...the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so and confided...of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being."... | |
| Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver - 1922 - 426 pages
...vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the ^vine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events....and confided themselves childlike to the genius of the age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their hearts, working through... | |
| Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 364 pages
...themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being." In his roving early days as teacher, printer, editor; reading his Dante and Shakespeare in a wood by... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1963 - 396 pages
...neighbor. The teacher of writing is a liberator, a miner of greatness. As described in Emerson's lines, "We are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny, not minors or invalids lying in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before the revolution, but... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1963 - 448 pages
...neighbor. The teacher of writing is a liberator, a miner of greatness. As described in Emerson's lines, "We are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny, not minors or invalids lying in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before the revolution, but... | |
| Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so, and confided...of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being."... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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."... | |
| William Lad Sessions - 1994 - 324 pages
...lacking; but what then might stand IO2. "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. . . . Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, beConfidence Model [ 97 in its place? Initially, one might think to distinguish two nonconfident conditions:... | |
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