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" ... we seek to separate them from the whole. We can no more halve things and get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside, or a light without a shadow. ' Drive out nature with a fork, she comes running back. "
New York Medical Times - Page 228
1896
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...projector has had the smallest success. The parted water reunites behind our hand. Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things, power out of strong things, the moment we seek to separate them from the whole. We can no more halve things and get the sensual...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...has had the smallest success. The parted water re-unites behind our hand. Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things, power out of strong things, the moment we seek to separate them from the whole. We can no more halve things and get the sensual...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...projector has had the smallest success. The parted water reunites behind our hand. Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things, power out of strong things, the moment we seek to separate them from the whole. We can no more halve things and get the sensual...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...projector has had the smallest success. The parted water reunites behind our hand. Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things, power out of strong things, the moment we seek to separate them from the whole. We can no more halve things and get the sensual...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things, power out 01 strong things, the moraept.we seek to separate them from the whole. We can no more...invests itself with inevitable conditions, which the u nwise seek to dodge, which one and another brags that he does not know ; brags that they do not touch...
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The Lover's Seat. Kathemérina Or Common Things in Relation to ..., Volume 2

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 368 pages
...projector has had the smallest success. The parted water reunites behind our hand. Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things,...shall have no outside, or a light without a shadow." As another great writer says, transgression and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 354 pages
...nrojector has had the smallest success. The parted water reunites behind our hand. Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things,...as we seek to separate them from the whole. We can tto more halve things and get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...success. The part-, ed water reunites behind our hand. Pleasure is taTcerTouT of '"pleasant thiffgs7"pront out of profitable things, power out of strong things, as soon as we t seek to separate them from the whole. We can no more halve things and get the sensual good, by itself,...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...projector has had the smallest success. The parted water reunites behind our hand. Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things,...without a shadow. " Drive out nature with a fork, she con1es running back." Life invests itself with inevitable conditions, which the unwise seek to dodge,...
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The Truth about Love: A Proposed Sexual Morality Based Upon the Doctrine of ...

1872 - 278 pages
...illuPuissant Men and Women. sions, and aspirations which dignify and adorn the passion in human eyes. " We can no more halve things and get the sensual good by itself," says Emerson, " than we can get an inside that shall have no outside, or a light without. a shadow."...
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