...college rules. What you have aggregated in a natural manner surprises and delights when it is produced.* 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...

...ran: " Emerson would have been a great man if he had written nothing else than the one sentence: ' God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both'" I smiled merely at his habitual exaggeration, and with my collect in my mind wondered what Emerson...

...responsibility, as Emerson said of truth, that you cannot have both it and repose. You must choose between them. "He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...commodity and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth." So also he shuts the door of responsibility. Whatever his bebelief, in action — or rather inaction...

...make no excuse for them. They were healthy and inevitable. In his essay on Intellect, Emerson says: God 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. He in whom love of repose predominates,...

...for them. They were healthy and inevitable. In his essay on Intellect, Emerson says: God 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. He in whom love of repose predominates,...

...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...

...with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." — WORDSWORTH. "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...commodity, and reputation: but he shuts the door of truth." — EMERSON. A WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY (See also index, under "Bibliographies") BIBLIOGRAPHIES are too...

...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,...

...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...

...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...