 ... to lay down his life for the sake of a truth, or in the cause of his country, or to save his son or his friend. And under the action of this sentiment of the Right, his heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature. Though Love repine, and...  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 96by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 461 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Bramwell Powell, Louise Connolly - 1899 - 336 pages
...round to him. 46. Though love repine, and reason chafe, There comes a voice without reply, — 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die. 47. The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1899 - 246 pages
...infinitely greater worth than that of the most luxurious and careless epicure of the Roman court. " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply : ' 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die.'" But, however we may cling... | |
 | Arthur Stanwood Pier - 1899 - 310 pages
...flippancy, and she found it in her heart to correct him. She quoted in a careful, sing-song voice, " 'Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' " " So you have seen the monument... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 490 pages
...his country, or to save his son or his friend. And under the action of this sentiment of the Eight, his heart and mind expand above himself, and above...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is enthusiasm,... | |
 | National Society for the Study of Education - 1900 - 1068 pages
...when we read Emerson's lines, Let Love repine or Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, fis man's perdition to be safe When for the Truth he ought to die. and apply them in any concrete case, we know that there are many whom " the voice " never reaches,... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1900 - 886 pages
...or reprimand ; 'Twill soon be dark ; Up ! mind thine own aim and God save the mark ! "—ToJ. W. " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, ' 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' " — Saerifice. " So nigh... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1901 - 306 pages
...liberty? To hug it, when appeal is made by the higher powers to sacrifice it, is not to be a man. " 'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die." THE popular clamor is not for the voice of God. Hence the noblest live with abiding things, and are... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1901 - 432 pages
...Emerson constantly appeals to the standard of flawless excellence in conduct, as in the lines, — " 'T is man's perdition to be safe ' When for the truth he ought to die." Within the past twenty years a new trend in literature has sprung up, initiated largely by Oriental... | |
 | Massachusetts Medical Society - 1901 - 1166 pages
...whisper of our genius or our conscience, or to the whisper of one such voice chosen out of many : " Though love repine and reason chafe There came a voice without reply, — ' 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' '' Even the means by which... | |
 | Charles Lewis Slattery - 1901 - 366 pages
...philanthropist. * Formerly Messrs. Singer, Hartmann, and Company. ISoofc LOYALTY TO CHURCH AND STATE " Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — ' "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' " CHAPTER I PITTSBURGH... | |
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