 | Claude Richards - 1917 - 368 pages
...the efficient man. Emerson assures us that "if a man can preach a better sermon, write a better book, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though...the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." One's activity should be intensive rather than feeble and prolonged. There should be ample opportunity... | |
 | Arthur James Gammack - 1917 - 176 pages
...deserve. There are more good positions open than there are good men to fill them. As Emerson said : "If a man can write a better book, preach a better...make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he live in a forest, the world will make a beaten path to his door." In relation to others, Play the game... | |
 | Mary Eleanor Kramer - 1917 - 322 pages
...Woodman, Spare That Tree," and tell the circumstances that led to the writing. 63. Who wrote: "If one write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make...mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his home in the wilderness, the world will make a beaten path to his door"? 64. Who wrote " The Old Oaken... | |
 | Thomas Morris Longstreth - 1917 - 402 pages
...dictum many times without divining how nourishing it would be to others when he said, "If a man can make a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, the world will make a beaten track to his door." This is the motto of the Club. And with its glorious... | |
 | Ernest Thompson Seton - 1917 - 476 pages
...strongest time was a blacksmith's apron. Emerson recognized the value of doing things well when he said: "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a bettei mousetrap than his neighbor, though he live in the woods, the world will make a beaten path... | |
 | 1920 - 1062 pages
...Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Conference : Some American man of letters once said: "If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbors, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten... | |
 | Ralph W. Polk - 1918 - 268 pages
...ever been on the minds o£ the leading thinkers of each generation. Among them was Emerson, who wrote: "If a man can write a better book, preach a better...the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." This is undoubtedly true to a certain extent today, although publicity is recognized as a very... | |
 | Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor, Brian Uzzi - 2000 - 296 pages
...science as a genderless and collaborative endeavor. 12 Social capital and faculty network relationships If a man can write a better book, preach a better...make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door. Ralph Waldo Emerson (... | |
 | Colin V. Sowter - 2000 - 52 pages
...MOUSETRAPS' DO NOT WORK; 'BETTER DOORS' DO! If a man ... make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. (Attributed to RW Emerson by SSB Yule in her Borrowings, 1889, emphasis added) This statement... | |
 | John Izod, R. W. Kilborn, Matthew Hibberd - 2000 - 244 pages
...Emerson: 'It a man produce a better documentary ... or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door'. If Kmerson's original comment about a better book and mousetrap ever held true in the 19th century,... | |
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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. 
