 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.  Essays: First Series - Página 307por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 páginas
...say, to have a church, or book, or pope that does all your thinking for you. But what says Emerson ? " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...the first philosophy, the first political party he meets—most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of... | |
 | 1894 - 494 páginas
...your mind. You will not let it think freely. You suppress its spontaneous action. As Emerson says: " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please, you can never have both." That choice is now yours. You say : " I will have the comfort of keeping my opinion undisturbed, though... | |
 | Anthony Wilson Thorold (bp. of Winchester.) - 1885 - 108 páginas
...knowledge." Never consent to sit down in a base content, as if you had plumbed the well of Divine wisdom. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 páginas
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | New York State Medical Association - 1888 - 632 páginas
...of " Prncul este profani ; " — both workers through life, for both had known, with Emerson, that " God offers to every mind its choice between Truth...Take which you please ; you can never have both." Clark has gone to join the great majority, leaving the greatest of legacies, the memory of his tender... | |
 | Susan Coolidge - 1890 - 382 páginas
...thine ; Behold the paths the saints have trod, The paths which led them home to God. MADAME GUYON. CjOD offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you cannot have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. HIGH on the desert... | |
 | Merwin Marie Snell - 1891 - 52 páginas
...Veritaa proprie invenitur in intellectu humano. S. THOMAS AQUINAS, De Veritate, Quffist. I., Art. IV. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please. RA.LPH WALDO EMERSON, Essay on Intellect. THHasbittflton, ®. C. l)g tbe 'flutbor MDCCCXCI. BY IRibil... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 páginas
...on this planet. Then all things are at risk." "God enters by a private door into every individual." "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, — you can never have both." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 páginas
...this planet. Then all things are at risk." "God enters by a private door into every individual." " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, —you can never have both." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 606 páginas
...on this planet. Then all things are at risk." "God enters by a private door into every individual." "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, — you can never have both." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.... | |
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