 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.  Saint Jospeh Medical Herald - Page 481913Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Claude Richards - 1917 - 368 pages
...a better sermon, write a better book, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | New York and New England Association of Railway Surgeons - 1918 - 128 pages
...fact that I found Dr. Lathrop to be as good an entertainer as he is a surgeon. Gentlemen, I thank you. EMERSON'S FAMOUS EPIGRAM. "If a man can write a better...make a beaten path to his door." — Ralph Waldo. Ed. RESULTS OF THE CARREL-DAKIN METHOD OF WOUND TREATMENT AT THE FRENCH FRONT. DR. AH EBELING, NEW... | |
 | 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...make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." This is undoubtedly true... | |
 | Charles Alpheus Bennett, William Thomas Bawden - 1918 - 466 pages
...West Presbyterian Church, New York City, from 1882-1893. The exact quotation is as follows: "If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, tho he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." The idea in the... | |
 | 1911 - 1230 pages
...better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap" (or do a better perineorrhaphy) " than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the...woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." IN MEMORIAM. WILLIAM WARREN POTTER, MD 1838-1911. WILLIAM WARREN POTTER, the son of Lindorf and Mary... | |
 | John Izod, R. W. Kilborn, Matthew Hibberd - 2000 - 244 pages
...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,... | |
 | Colin V. Sowter - 2000 - 52 pages
...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 is often... | |
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