... each stands for the whole world. What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can. Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods. Let us not interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to... Essays, First Series - Page 170by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
| David McConnell Steele - 1919 - 284 pages
...this world so beautiful." And let me quote not only from the Bible. Recall this passage from Emerson. "The only way to have a friend is to be one. You shall never come nearer a person by getting into their house." Study your true mission in the world, not... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and...innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom; and for you to say ought is to be frivolous. Wait, and thy soul shall speak. Wait until the necessary and everlasting... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...themselves of your lips. The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less or any thing else. The only reward of virtue is virtue: the only way to have a friend is to be one. Vain to hope to come nearer a man by getting into his house. If unlike, his soul only flees the faster... | |
| 1923 - 208 pages
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| University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say anything to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and...for you to say aught is to be frivolous. Wait, and the heart shall speak. Wait until the necessary and everlasting overpowers you, until day and night... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say anything to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and...for you to say aught is to be frivolous. Wait, and the heart shall speak. Wait until the necessary and everlasting overpowers you, until day and night... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...amount. — PRUDENCE 1 he only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less or any thing else. The only reward of virtue is virtue: the only way to have a friend is to be one. Vain to hope to come nearer a man by getting into his house. —FRIENDSHIP * 1 rust men, and they will... | |
| Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - 1925 - 188 pages
...Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such ? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and...you to say aught is to be frivolous. Wait, and thy soul shall speak. Wait until the necessary and everlasting overpowers you, until day and night avail... | |
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