 The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train...  The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 55by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife. Let us never bow and apologize more. A great man is...he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...can do; but to carry the thought on to three steps, marks a great teacher. THE SENSES AND THE SOUL Ordinarily, everybody in society reminds us of somewhat...he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...and apologize more. A great man is comjing to eat at my house. I do not wis.h, RALPH WALDO EMERSON to please him; I wish that he should wish to please...he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...things. Where he is, there is nature. He measures you and all men and all events. Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some...he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...Hemeasiices you, andaUJnen, and all e_WJMii. .jOiJiililtily. everybody in soclulji luiiuiuly us ot somewhat else, or of some other person. Character,...he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every trnp ma" is p. Cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and limn f Lilly... | |
 | Henry Hardin Cherry - 1926 - 230 pages
...something else or of some other person. Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else. It takes place on the whole creation. The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent, put all means into the shade. This all great men are and do." Our efforts must be vitalized by ideas... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...things. Where he is, there is nature. He measures you, and all men, and all events. Ordinarily every body in society reminds us of somewhat else or of some...he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...Where he is, there is nature. He measures you, and all men, and all events. Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some...he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires inf1nite spaces and numbers and time fully to... | |
 | Albert J. von Frank - 1985 - 204 pages
...desire and ambition could explode in a vision of the self subsumed in the 'All.' ' 16. Cf. Emerson: "The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent" ("Self-Reliance," in The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Robert E. Spiller et al. [Cambridge:... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...things. Where he is, there is nature. He measures you and all men and all events. Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some...he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to... | |
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