I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies. Essays: First Series - Página 105por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 páginas
...they would triumph, lo ! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be 20 defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said...general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a 25 benefactor. As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valour of the enemy he kills... | |
| Commonwealth Club of California - 1908 - 570 páginas
...thanks ; they are the men who deserve tonight this lamp, and not I. I think it was Emerson who said, "So long as all that is said is said against me, I feel safe, but when I find myself covered with honeyed words of praise, I feel like one who lies helpless... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 páginas
...as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that...believes that the strength and valor of the enemy be kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist. The same guards... | |
| 1909 - 540 páginas
...when they would triumph, lo ! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said...feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies. In... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 632 páginas
...are favorite amusements, for they have no claws, no dangers. Censure and Praise.1 — I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one... | |
| Rev. S. Pollock Linn - 1881 - 472 páginas
...like the deer-skin, and when they would triumph, lo! he has passed on invulnerable. So long as all is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success; but aa soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one lying unprotected before his enemies.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 páginas
...when they would triumph, lo ! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is against me, I 25 feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 páginas
...they would triumph, lo! he has passed 25 on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said...unprotected before his enemies. In general, every evil to 30 which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and... | |
| Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1913 - 152 páginas
...lines kept their work or their pay first in mind? NOTES NOTES THE RELATION OF WORKERS AND EMPLOYERS XI "In general every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor." EMERSON. "If you serve an ungrateful master — serve him the more." EMERSON. "Economic laws work themselves... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 páginas
...when they would triumph, lo ! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said...feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honied words of 20 praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.... | |
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