 All the newspapers, all the tongues of to-day will of course at first defame what is noble ; but you who hold not of to-day, not of the times, but of the Everlasting, are to stand for it: and the highest compliment man ever receives from heaven is the...  Alph Waldo Emerson - Page 40by Alexander Ireland - 1882Full view - About this book
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...every untried project, which proceeds out of good will and honest seeking. All the newspapers, all the tongues of to-day will of course at first defame...sending to him its disguised and discredited angels. New England Reformers A Lecture Read Before the Society in Amory Hall, On Sunday, 3 March, 1844 (1844)... | |
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