 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
 | 1904 - 214 pages
...corrects thy error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in thy error. NOVEMBER 14. Morning. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you cannot have both. — Emerson. Evening. Do not covet that which it is not lawful for thee to have.... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1905 - 76 pages
...N. Williamson, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle. 2 vols. WH Allen XI. EMERSON. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. THE OVER-SOUL MAY SECOND God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. INTELLECT MAY THIRD Eat thou the bread which men refuse ; Flee from the goods which from thee flee... | |
 | Maria Theresa Villiers Earle - 1906 - 412 pages
...yawn ; at other times he would be moved to tears by a street organ.' How many people are like that 1 God offers to every mind its choice between truth...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation, but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from... | |
 | 1906 - 660 pages
...lack of mental independence? In this connection, it were well to remember Emerson's pregnant words : " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth -predominates will keep himself aloof from... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - 1906 - 466 pages
...every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, you can never have both. . . . He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...the first philosophy, the first political party he meets,—most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation, but he shuts the door of... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - 1906 - 468 pages
...out the prejudice of our judgment against Chinamen. Emerson says: (Essays, 1st Series, Intellect.) "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please, you can never have both. . . . He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | 1906 - 388 pages
...the toiler. You must not only earn your daily bread, you must earn your daily wisdom. Emerson says, "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose, take which you please, you can never have both," and your own Frances Willard, "It is not so much what comes to you as what you come to that determines... | |
 | 1906 - 436 pages
...the toiler. You must not only earn your daily bread, you must earn your daily wisdom. Emerson says, "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose, take which you please, you can never have both," and your own Frances Willard, "It is not so much what conies to you as what you come to that determines... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...; and the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works. OD offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you cannot have both. "THE habit, even in little and the least matters, of not appealing to any but our... | |
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