Go love thy infant; love thy woodchopper; be good-natured and modest; have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home. Select Essays and Poems - Página 33por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 páginas
...SEPTEMBER ~*TJ i mj M i IBI ^ • every foolish day we sleep off the fumes and furies of its hours. T"^RUTH is handsomer than the affectation of love....must have some edge to it — else it is none. T"HE secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the selfhelping man. For... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 páginas
...incredible tenderness for black folk a 20 thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counterac25 tion of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines. I shun father and mother and... | |
| Mercer Green Johnston - 1907 - 208 páginas
...platform, crouching and creeping and boot-licking. "Your goodness must have some edge to it," said Emerson, "else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached...the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines." More that is divine can be exhibited through a supplanter like Jacob, despite his hardness, than through... | |
| Mercer Green Johnston - 1907 - 208 páginas
...creeping and boot-licking. "Your goodness must have some edge to it," said Emerson, "else it is i^one. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction...the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines." More that is divine can be exhibited through a supplanter like Jacob, despite his hardness, than through... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 páginas
...aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness must have some edge to it." " Do your work and you shall reinforce yourself." " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 páginas
...aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness must have some edge to it." " Do your work and you shall reinforce yourself." " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 páginas
...incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles <off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the N door-post, ' Whim.' I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in... | |
| 1908 - 940 páginas
...able to say of us, "If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument." Rather we should be able to say, "I shun father and mother, and wife and brother, when my genius calls me." We believe that the Jewish home is the nursery for the perpetuation of idiosyncrasies which tend to... | |
| 1909 - 540 páginas
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the doorpost, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 páginas
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it,—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
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