 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...  Essays: First series - Page 269by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anthony Wilson Thorold (bp. of Winchester.) - 1885 - 108 pages
...knowledge." Never consent to sit down in a base content, as if you had plumbed the well of Divine wisdom. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...perception of identity. We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird are not theirs, have...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | New York State Medical Association - 1888 - 632 pages
...of " Prncul este profani ; " — both workers through life, for both had known, with Emerson, that " God offers to every mind its choice between Truth...Take which you please ; you can never have both." Clark has gone to join the great majority, leaving the greatest of legacies, the memory of his tender... | |
 | Susan Coolidge - 1890 - 382 pages
...thine ; Behold the paths the saints have trod, The paths which led them home to God. MADAME GUYON. CjOD offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you cannot have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. HIGH on the desert... | |
 | Merwin Marie Snell - 1891 - 52 pages
...Veritaa proprie invenitur in intellectu humano. S. THOMAS AQUINAS, De Veritate, Quffist. I., Art. IV. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please. RA.LPH WALDO EMERSON, Essay on Intellect. THHasbittflton, ®. C. l)g tbe 'flutbor MDCCCXCI. BY IRibil... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...this planet. Then all things are at risk." "God enters by a private door into every individual." " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, —you can never have both." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 606 pages
...on this planet. Then all things are at risk." "God enters by a private door into every individual." "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, — you can never have both." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...this planet. Then all things are at risk." "God enters by a private door into every individual." " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, — you can never have both." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...on this planet. Then all things are at risk." "God enters by a private door into every individual." "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, — you can never have both." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...perception of identity. We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird are not theirs, have...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
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