 Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.  Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 38by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...fiis own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, ASTRONOMY ATHEISM Commands pilgrim faint, and nigh to sink Beneath his load of earthly woe, Beaumont and Fletcher, 224. ASTRONOMY. Devotional ONE sun by day, by night ten thousand shine, And... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1877 - 408 pages
...together. " ' Man is his own star : and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate ; Nothing to him...or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.' " " Confoundedly bad angels they are too/' muttered Charlie ruefully, remembering the one that undid... | |
 | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1877 - 334 pages
...the invalid's pallid face was entirely efficacious in chasing it, for the nonce, away. CHAPTER LI. " Our acts our angels are, or good, or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." FLETCHER. A ROOM some sixteen feet square, bow -windowed, after the fashion of sea-side lodginghouses,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 666 pages
...lines: — " Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate: Nothing to him...or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." Page 28, note 2. Impatient as he was of quackery in things spiritual, and unattractive as semi-physiological... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...quaesiveris extra." "Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him...Cast the bantling on the rocks, Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat; Wintered with the hawk and fox, Power and speed be hands and feet. ESSAY II SELF-RELIANCE... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...quaesiveris extra." "Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him...Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune Cast the banding on the rocks, Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat; Wintered with the hawk and fox, Power and... | |
 | Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller - 1987 - 552 pages
...and Fletcher: Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late — The third, one of Emerson's own gnomic verses, is prophetic of much contemporary shamanism: Cast... | |
 | Arthur Versluis - 1993 - 364 pages
...Fletcher were those in The Honest Man's Fortune, reprinted in Parnassus, Emerson's poetry anthology: Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.64 All of these quotations pertain to karma. In "Fate," Emerson further defines what he meant:... | |
 | Ariel Books - 1993 - 94 pages
...trumpets, angels, and arise, arise iJrom death, you numberless infinities Of souls. — JOHN DONNE _ Uur acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by still — JOHN FLETCHER The JConest Man s ffortane (Jle shall cover t/iee with his feathers, and under... | |
 | Paul A. Bové - 1995 - 318 pages
...and Fletcher: Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. The third, one of Emerson's own gnomic verses, is prophetic of much contemporary shamanism: Cast the... | |
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