 ... 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 defeat and pain,...  Complete Works - Página 318por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John Davys Beresford - 1912 - 430 páginas
... LIBRARY or THE I. A CANDIDATE FOR TRUTH " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. . . . He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | James Jackson Putnam - 1915 - 204 páginas
...consists in an eternal seeking, a never-ending attempt to find ever new and richer meanings in life. "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, — you can never have both." The powerful thinker, Lessing, whose " Nathan der Weise " has stimulated speculation in so many minds,... | |
 | Hugh De Sélincourt - 1915 - 330 páginas
...and ask him for another kiss which she promised not to wipe off. XXXV God offers to every mind itt choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both. — EMEBSON. WHEN Jeremy left, Constance thought : " Oh, I'll make it up with him next week-end, poor... | |
 | George Frederick Gundelfinger - 1916 - 348 páginas
...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... | |
 | Hugh De Sélincourt - 1917 - 350 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Stephen Rainsford - 1922 - 516 páginas
...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,... | |
 | William Stephen Rainsford - 1922 - 518 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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