 ... 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
 | Caroline Louisa Hunt - 1891 - 116 pages
...friendship's laws are by this law expressed : Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest." HOMER. The only reward of virtue is virtue ; the only way to have a friend is to be one. RW EMERSON. It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends, if they themselves care for nobody.... | |
 | 1892 - 780 pages
...screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. The only reward of virtue is virtue ; the only way to have a friend is to be one. Flowers and fruits are always fit presents ; flowers because they are a proud assertion that a ray... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...Yet it is affinity that determines which two shall converse. October Eighteenth. October Nineteenth. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. October Twentieth. My prudence consists in avoiding and going without, not in the inven f ing of means... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or to say anything 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... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1896 - 268 pages
...of your friend, than his echo. 8. We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. 9. The only reward of virtue is virtue ; the only way to have a friend is to be one. 10. The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. Oral Exercise. Explain... | |
 | Tyler Family Association - 1897 - 304 pages
...her life. "That spirit which suffices quiet hearts" was hers. She felt it was good and proper that "the only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." While fitted by birth and training for the positions of distinction she was called upon to fill, her... | |
 | 1898 - 404 pages
...wit. — Emerson. THE only money of God is God. He pays never with anything less or anything else. The only reward of virtue is virtue: the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Emerson. SOCIETY is an arrangement for producing and sustaining human happiness, and temper is... | |
 | 1898 - 404 pages
...not wit.—Emerson. THE only money of God is God. He pays never with anything less or anything else. The only reward of virtue is virtue: the only way to have a friend is to be one.—Emerson. SOCIETY is an arrangement for producing and sustaining human happiness, and temper... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 440 pages
...interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or to say anything 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 428 pages
...interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or to say anything 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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