Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when... So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance - Page 5by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mercer Green Johnston - 1907 - 208 pages
...creeping and boot-licking. "Your goodness must have some edge to it," said Emerson, "else it is i^one. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction...the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines." More that is divine can be exhibited through a supplanter like Jacob, despite his hardness, than through... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness must have some edge to it." " Do your work and you shall reinforce yourself." " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 pages
...aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness must have some edge to it." " Do your work and you shall reinforce yourself." " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles <off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the N door-post, ' Whim.' I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in... | |
| 1908 - 940 pages
...able to say of us, "If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument." Rather we should be able to say, "I shun father and mother, and wife and brother, when my genius calls me." We believe that the Jewish home is the nursery for the perpetuation of idiosyncrasies which tend to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it,—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 632 pages
...enough for me. It is too picturesque, and like a bronzed cast of the Socrates or Venus. July 4. Once the doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines.1 ... I have no duties so peremptory as my intellectual duties. 5. Edward Palmer 2 left my house... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your 20 goodness must have some edge to it, • — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...incredible tenderness for black folk 25 a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...affectation of love. ' Your goodness must have some 1 "Absolve," etc., ie, justify yourself. 2 Approval. 3 " Titular and ephemeral," ie, existing in name... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...incredible tenderness for black folk a 15 thousand miles off . Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of 20 love, when that pules and whines. I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls... | |
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