 Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing...  The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 76by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. COMPENSATION. ESSAY III. COMPENSATION. EVER since I was a boy, I have wished to write a discourse on... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...himself, stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles ; just 1 Become his own. as a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a...COMPENSATION. THE wings of Time are black and white, Pied l with morning and with night. Mountain tall and ocean deep Trembling balance duly keep. In changing... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...Effect, the chancellors of God. In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations....can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. ANALYSIS OF SELF-RELIANCE. THE theme here is directly named, and distinctly spoken too many times,... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 pages
...additions of being. In a virtuous act I properly am : in a virtuous act I add to the world" ; again : "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." With all our centuries of creed-making and creed breaking, of persecution and martyrdom, of intolerance... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. g. COWPER— TVie Task. Bk. II. L. 1. river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever 1 A. SCOTT — Lady of the Lake h. EMERSON — Essays. Of Self -Reliance. Breathe soft, ye winds ! ye waves, in silence sleep! t. GAY—... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. [From Essays, First Series, 1841, " Self-Reliance." The text is that of the first edition.] EXPERIENCE... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 pages
...your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. [From Essays, First Series, 1841, " Self-Reliance." The text is that of the first edition.] EXPERIENCE... | |
 | 1898 - 946 pages
...fraction of Time encircled by Eternity, his hand-breadths of Space encircled by Infinitude. — Carlyle. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. — Emerson. The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favourable event raises your spirits, and you think good days...can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. COMPENSATION [VER since I was a boy I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation: for it seemed... | |
 | 1899 - 136 pages
...as a man puts off all foreign support and stands alone that I see him to be strong and to prevail. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. " FROM COMPENSATION." For everything you have missed, you have gained something else ; and for everything... | |
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