 ... the laws of its influx. Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose...  Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Página 318por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1923 - 210 páginas
...men." In his own mental poise, he seems to me to have belied one of his most profound utterances — "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." In some fashion as inexplicable as his intuitions, he managed without compromising to take both. So... | |
 | 1930 - 532 páginas
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 páginas
...his poetry has a decided prose quality, fie had an immortal thirst for Truth, and said, "God gives every mind its choice between Truth and Repose. Take which you please; you can never have both." No one can read Emerson with his denunciation of moral cowardice, his appeal for personal independence,... | |
 | Ernest Brennecke - 1925 - 314 páginas
...derived from the facts of life. If it is true that, as Emerson once said, "God offers to ) every mind his choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both," then Thomas Hardy has forever forsworn the delights of repose and calm. Particularly in his earlier... | |
 | "Diogenes" (pseud.) - 1926 - 104 páginas
...this restlessness that spurs on to strife and conquest. "God offers to every mind," Emerson thinks, "its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can not have both." We seem to be enveloped by the force of achievement and the search for truth should... | |
 | 1928 - 418 páginas
...class-room, is said to be one of the most prominent men " on the campus." " God offers to every mind the choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both." So says Emerson, the American master of wisdom. Perhaps in the fortunate and somewhat artificial life... | |
 | 1982 - 750 páginas
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 | 1897 - 902 páginas
...them catch and hang your own experiences, till what was onoe his thought has become your character. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please ; you can never have both." " Discontent is want of self-reliance ; it is infirmity of will." " It is impossible for a man to be... | |
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