 ... 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
 | Alexander Magnus Drummond - 1925 - 322 pages
...the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." 7 For epigrammatic balance : "The only reward of virtue is virtue ; the only way to have a friend is to be one." * For figurative elaboration: "The history of persecution is a history of the endeavors to cheat nature,... | |
 | Walter Kay Smart - 1925 - 282 pages
...countries, to honour the memory of saints by votive lights burnt before their images. (Irving.) 23. The only reward of virtue, is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. (Emerson.) 24. A great many people talk as if this claim of ours, that all things are poetical, were... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Severina Elaine Nelson - 1927 - 408 pages
...of the heir is only masked laughter. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend, than his echo. The only reward of virtue, is virtue: the only way to have a friend, is to be one. Philanthropy is the mark of a remorseful, not a moral, age. Better deserve honor and not have it, than... | |
 | André Célières - 1936 - 112 pages
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