 ... 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
 | Edwin Osgood Grover - 1911 - 72 pages
...•*•» mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is. — Charles Kingsley * J* J* E only reward of virtue, is virtue: The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Emerson J* J* Jf TS' a-wearying for you, All the time a-feelin' blue, Restless — don't know what... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1913 - 494 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select 30 soul, or how to say anything to such ? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and...your lips. The only reward of virtue is virtue ; the onlyway to have a friend is to be one. You shall not come 5 nearer a man by getting into his house.... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes, Harvey Dee Brown, Helen Edmunds Redding, Theodora Goldsmith - 1918 - 120 pages
...requires great and sublime parts. Approach your friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart. Wait until the necessary and everlasting overpowers...until day and night avail themselves of your lips. Wait, and thy soul shall speak. THE GREAT CITY1 WALT WHITMAN i A great city is that which has the greatest... | |
 | Mrs. Mary Louise Cutter Jones Hastings - 1919 - 232 pages
...with all who strive After the higher life. — Henry Wadswofth Longfellow. The Understanding Friend The only reward of virtue is virtue ; the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Sunday A faithful friend is a strong defence; And he that hath found such... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pages
...Friendthip. Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. Ibid. Thou art to me a delicious torment. ibid. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. Ibid. The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. Ibid. And with Caesar... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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