Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 35by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Shakespeare. Man is fiis om those heavenly shores away, And on this desert world descend O'e ASTRONOMY ATHEISM Commands all light, all influence, all fate — Nothing to him falls early or too... | |
| G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 pages
..."— DIOGENES LAERTIUS.' Man. — HAH is an animal that cooks his victuals. — ED. P.UHKE. — MAN is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest...too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. FLETCHER, Upon, an Honest Man's Fortune. — MAN is one world,... | |
| John Martin - 1878 - 314 pages
...do in early childhood grows into our good angel ; the evil we do afterward into our destroyer. " Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest...too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." These lines, from the epilogue to the " Honest Man's Fortune,"... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...Thanks to my stars, I have not ranged about The wilds of life ere I could find a friend. ADUISON. Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest...too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows, that walk by us still. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Though cheats, yet more intelligible... | |
| Paul Hamilton Hayne - 1878 - 170 pages
...comprehend in all its beauty and philosophy that truth which Fletcher has set to a solemn music : " Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest...too late, Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, The fatal shadows that walk by us still.'-' Not long ago, after the lapse of a decade, we visited Hayne's... | |
| William Van Ness Bay - 1878 - 1026 pages
...before this manuscript could reach the hands of the printer, he was also gathered to his fathers. " Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest...all fate ; Nothing to him falls early, or too late." GEORGE TOMPKINS. ' This gentleman was for many years presiding justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri,... | |
| 1878 - 254 pages
...slave of its master. CAPTAIN HOBBES. SELF-BELIANCE. Man is his own star, and the soul that can Kender an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all...too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill. LESSON XXIX. THE DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM. PART FTRST. Re mote', far from; distant. U'ni vers'al, affecting... | |
| Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1878 - 318 pages
...angel ; the evil we do afterwards into our destroyer. Man is his own star, and the soul that can Bender an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all...too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. These lines from the epilogue to the " Honest Man's Fortune,"... | |
| Dinah Maria Craik - 1878 - 342 pages
...angel ; the evil we do afterwards into our destroyer. Man is Ms own star, and the soul that can Kender an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all...too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. These lines from the epilogue to the " Honest Man's Fortune/'... | |
| 1878 - 506 pages
...Do you remember what Beaumont and Fletcher say in the epilogue to " Honest Man's Fortune " ? " Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest...light, all influence, all fate ; Nothing to him falls too early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."... | |
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