 ... 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - 1988 - 468 pages
...— formed the background of his thoughts. CHAPTER VII. FRIENDSHIP. WHAT is so great as friendship? The only reward of virtue is virtue: the only way to have a friend is to be one. — EMERSON. AFTER that evening the two girls were much together. Sappho's beauty appealed strongly... | |
 | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - 1988 - 468 pages
...his thoughts. CHAPTER VII. FRIENDSHIP. WHAT is so great as friendship? The only reward of virtue n virtue: the only way to have a friend is to be one. — EMERSON. AFTER that evening the two girls were much together. Sappho's beauty appealed strongly... | |
 | Philip Leroy Culbertson - 1992 - 188 pages
...what grandeur of spirit we can. Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods. . . . The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. ... In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men. Men... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 pages
...relatives. — Hugh Kingsmill Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you. Jokes The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart;... | |
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