 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
 | John Ruskin, William Burgess - 1907 - 476 pages
...intellectually as it is morally i A self-denial no less austere than the saint's is demanded of the scholar. Be must worship truth, and forego all things for that,...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... | |
 | Sheldon Leavitt - 1907 - 262 pages
...keep his mental powers in a state of plasticity and his thoughts limpid. The Sage of Concord says: " 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 k^ep himself aloof from... | |
 | William Burgess - 1907 - 492 pages
...repose. Take which yon pleaae,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillate*, He In whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the &nt philosophy, the first political party he meets,—most likely his father's. He rrts rest, commodity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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...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... | |
 | Sheldon Leavitt - 1908 - 252 pages
...keep his mental powers in a state of plasticity and his thoughts limpid. The Sage of Concord says: " 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... | |
 | Samuel Carlyle Bradley - 1908 - 640 pages
...the Zealots broke up in angry dispute, with nothing concluded or determined upon. LVII MARY AND HELON "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please: you can never have both." — Emerson. Days and nights have passed, and the day of the feast of the Passover is near at hand.... | |
 | John Davys Beresford - 1912 - 504 pages
...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...party he meets, — most likely his father's. . . . He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat. He will... | |
 | John Davys Beresford - 1912 - 430 pages
... LIBRARY or THE I. A CANDIDATE FOR TRUTH " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...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,... | |
 | James Jackson Putnam - 1915 - 204 pages
...consists in an eternal seeking, a never-ending attempt to find ever new and richer meanings in life. "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, — you can never have both." The powerful thinker, Lessing, whose " Nathan der Weise " has stimulated speculation in so many minds,... | |
 | Hugh De Sélincourt - 1915 - 330 pages
...and ask him for another kiss which she promised not to wipe off. XXXV God offers to every mind itt choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both. — EMEBSON. WHEN Jeremy left, Constance thought : " Oh, I'll make it up with him next week-end, poor... | |
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