 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
 | 1915 - 266 pages
...Sidney's maxim was, "Look in thv heart and write." Emerson's doctrine is, "Look in thy heart and act." "There is a time in every man's education when he...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion. * * * The power that resides in him is new in nature. * * * Bravely let him... | |
 | 1915 - 376 pages
...actual use. There is no surer way of having this expectation realized than by owning a Winton Six. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion; that tho the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn... | |
 | William George Puddefoot - 1915 - 332 pages
...on self-reliance : "Speak your latest conviction and it shall be the universal sense, else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the tune, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another." I know I have left out... | |
 | George Van Ness Dearborn - 1916 - 248 pages
...goodhumored 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...to take with shame our own opinion from another." The reform of the school system in this respect, that annual $ 800,000,000 system, is a matter of many... | |
 | Matthew Hale Wilson - 1916 - 336 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...to take with shame our own opinion from another." If the teacher has the marks of personality and searches for its signs in others he can develop those... | |
 | Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 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;... | |
 | 1931 - 398 pages
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 | George Van Ness Dearborn - 1916 - 250 pages
...goodhumored 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...the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame OUT own opinion from another." The reform of the school system in this respect, that annual $ 800,000,000... | |
 | Ellen Lane Spencer - 1917 - 218 pages
...ideas. "Else," says Emerson, "a stranger to-morrow will say with masterly good sense precisely what ^e have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinions from another." There is a reason for every idea that comes to you just as there is a reason... | |
 | Matthew Hale Wilson - 1916 - 334 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 what we have thought and felt all the rime, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another." If the teacher has the... | |
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