 | 1906 - 418 pages
...the whole race be thinking and acting for the benefit of each of its members. CHARLES EDWARD GUMMING. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty; all reputation to a shame; confounds the saint with the rogue; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. —... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...IVELY boys write to their ear and eye, and the cool reader finds nothing but sweet jingles in it. I IFE only avails: not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose. 'T'HE whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is a guidance for each... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of 25 the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates ; that the soul becomes ; 3 for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life and what is called death. $ Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...the world hates, that the soul 'becomes'; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
 | Walter Leatherbee Leighton - 1908 - 124 pages
...continual passing from .one existence into another." In a similar strain Emerson says : " Power ceases the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a present state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim." 1 Plato (427-347 BC), a man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...underlie my present and will always all circumstances, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame; confounds the saint with the rogue; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...underlie my present and will always all circumstances, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame; confounds the saint with the rogue ; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...circumstances, and what is called life and what is called death. I Life only avails, not the4wving-lived.vPower ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.J This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past; turns... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and 30 what is called life, and what is called death. 26. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas0 equally aside. Why,... | |
 | William Alanson White - 1911 - 156 pages
...mechanisms, or better, action-systems ever in process of adjustment and adaptation. As Emerson 2 puts it, "Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes." The two concepts individual and environment, far from being mutually exclusive, can only be considered... | |
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. 
