 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.  Every Day with Emerson - Page 13by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 99 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wood - 1890 - 312 pages
...with the same irresistible momentum, whether under sunny or cloudy skies. " Life," says Emerson, " is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its own focus."... | |
 | First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Calif. Ladies - 1891 - 96 pages
...man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. —Chesterfield. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be manycolored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.... | |
 | Mildred Cabell Watkins - 1894 - 232 pages
...innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be the many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. Character is the centrality, the impossibility... | |
 | Edith Gray Wheelwright - 1895 - 372 pages
...the ground, the girl made for the door of the library and vanished from the room. CHAPTER XVI. ' Life is a train of moods, like a string of beads, and as we pass through them, they prove to be many-coloured lenses, which paint the world their own hues, and each shows only what lies in its focus."—EMERSON.... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - 358 pages
...are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work. 21. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be manycolored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies at its focus.... | |
 | Johann Amos Comenius - 1828 - 138 pages
...of outward results ; that is, to foster industry — love of bodily work." a Emerson observes: "Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored 2. Inasmuch as children try to imitate what they see others do,1 they should be permitted... | |
 | Fabiola hospital association - 1899 - 94 pages
...man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Chesterfield. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be manycolored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.... | |
 | 1899 - 136 pages
...is dislocation and detachment from the life of God that make things ugly. FROM " EXPERIENCE." Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...each other are oblique and casual. Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-coloured lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 376 pages
...each other are oblique and casual. Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.1 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.... | |
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