God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... Essays: First series - Página 269por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 páginas
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as ! this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 páginas
...perception of identity. We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird are not theirs, have...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 páginas
...strict consanguinity, and detects more likeness than variety in all her changes. We are stung by the _ desire for new thought, but when we receive a new...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 páginas
...perception of identity. We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird are not theirs, have...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 páginas
...universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the individual to it. TKUTH. — 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,... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 páginas
...universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the individual to it. TRUTH. — 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,... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 páginas
...the individual to it. TRUTH. — God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Tako which you please — you can never have 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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 páginas
...rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saiiit's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth,...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 354 páginas
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby aug mented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 páginas
...the overshadow ing knowledge of the world's great men, is chilled into apathy, remember — " That God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose, take which you please, — you can never have them both ! " Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates,... | |
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