While tens of thousands, thinking on the affray, Men unto whom sufficient for the day And minds not stinted or untilled are given, Sound, healthy Children of the God of Heaven, Are cheerful as the rising Sun in May. What do we gather hence but firmer... The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 307by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904Full view - About this book
| Edward Cornelius Towne - 1863 - 36 pages
...He so accepted his life, with all its circumstances of trial and difficulty, as to prove — "That every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath." During the four years which intervened between his father's death and his admission to the sophomore... | |
| John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...faith and morals hold Which Milton held. Poems dedicated to National Independence. Part. i. Sonnet xvi. Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. Ibid. Sonnet xx. A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules. Ibid. Part ii. Sonnet xii. Turning,... | |
| 1870 - 300 pages
...the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of...For every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope s perpetual breath." FACTS, HINTS, GEMS, AND POETRY. The affirmative of affirmatives is love.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 284 pages
...the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of...not help somebody ; " For every gift of noble origin la breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath." The affirmative of affirmatives is love. As much love,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 312 pages
...TVhti that is spoken which has a right to be spokeij the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set do»l nothing that will not help somebody ; . " For every...breath." The affirmative of affirmatives is love. As me. love, so much perception. As caloric to ma'tter-r is love to mind ; so it enlarges, and so it empov.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 316 pages
...the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. 'Don't waste youi-self in rejection, nor bark against :the bad, 'but chant the beauty of...that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chafter and the criticism will stop. -Set down nothing that will not help somebody ; " For every gift... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 286 pages
...the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to he spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody ;... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1870 - 390 pages
...God of heaven, Are cheerful as the rising sun in May. What do we gather hence but firmer faith That every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath; That virtue and the faculties within Are vital,—and that riches are akin To fear, to change, to cowardice,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1871 - 544 pages
...his nature, and, secondly, an indispensable condition of his moral and intellectual, progression : For every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breatb. WORDSWORTH. But a natural instinct constitutes a right, as far as its gratification is compatible... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1871 - 356 pages
...that inaugurates despair, in the action that ends in self-disgust ; for rightly sings the poet that " Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath." Let us then inquire what are the sources and conditions of cheerfulness ; what are the easy frailties... | |
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