 Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with...  The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 45by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Phineas Garrett - 1905 - 872 pages
...and disgrace follow. Cliapman. Time's current may wear wrinkles in the face, but not reach the heart. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation ia suicide ; that he must take himself for better or for worse, as his portion; thal, though the wide... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1903 - 278 pages
...come. — LONGFELLOW. (6) There is a time in every man's experience when he arrives at the conclusion that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself, for better or for worse, as his portion ; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. 4. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 pages
...good-humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. . . . We but half express ourselves and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.... | |
 | 1906 - 214 pages
...good-humored inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be foreed to take with shame our opinion from another." Accepting the opinions of another and the tastes... | |
 | Samuel C. Cronwright-Schreiner - 1906 - 574 pages
...good-humoured inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all along, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another." " Trust thyself : every... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with 5 masterly good sense precisely what we have thought...arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that 10 imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion ; that though... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...good-humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...man's education when he arrives at the conviction V SELF-RELIANCE r that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 344 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. 1 1 Emerson, essay on Self-reliance, PART m CONCLUSIONS 281 CHAPTER XI FULL MEANING OF STUDY: RELATION... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 348 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.1 1 Emerson, essay on Self-reliance. PART m CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER XI FULL MEANING OF STUDY: RELATION... | |
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