 That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy...  Modern Eloquence - Page 1079edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1908 - 456 pages
...on the starry vault; for him the blest Savior died. He knows that whatever diminishes his good will to men, his sympathy with them, even in their blindness...tranquillity of soul, to elevation of mind, and to patient striving? Have not the flowers, and the human eye, and the look of heaven when the sun first appears... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1908 - 452 pages
...lower ends. If we have but the right mind, all things, even those that hurt, help us. "That which bents us," says Emerson, "embosomed in beauty and wonder...tranquillity of soul, to elevation of mind, and to patient striving? Have not the flowers, and the human eye, and the look of heaven when the sun first appears... | |
 | 1908 - 812 pages
...kneeling with the stroke of the oar, are true prayers, heard throughout nature. That which befits us (embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are) is cheerfulness...and the endeavor to realize our aspirations." The mark of wisdom, then, in Emerson's view, is not to hunt for signs and wonders and Divine over-rulings... | |
 | Thomas H. Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - 1908 - 506 pages
...abiding word for us, the word by which being dead he yet speaks to us, is this: "That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness...courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart, which has received so 25 much, trust the Power by which it lives?" One can scarcely... | |
 | Rev. S. Pollock Linn - 1881 - 472 pages
...palms to hold His blessed morning boon — strength for the day I Scribner'a. THAT which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness...courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Emerson. LET us wipe our tears, lift up our heads, and gird ourselves for brave and cheerful toil.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...arise before a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison. That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavor tp realize our aspirations. The life of man is the true romance, which, when it is valiantly conducted,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 632 pages
...us whilst we doze and sleep, but when we wake, nothing but 1 840] WAITING 469 causes can content us. The life of man is the true romance which, when it is valiantly conducted and all the stops of the instrument opened, will go nigh to craze the reader with anxiety, wonder and... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pages
...God is man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can ; * and That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage and the endeavour to realise our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much trust die Power... | |
 | 1906 - 1034 pages
...as noble a gift to mankind as <tis works" : "That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonders as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our own aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much trust the Power by which it lives ?"... | |
 | 1914 - 442 pages
...will not suffer that fools or criminals divert him to lower ends. If we have but the 20 rightmind, all things, even those that hurt, help us. "That which...true romance which when it is valiantly conducted 25 yields the imagination a higher joy than any fiction." May we not make the stars and the mountains... | |
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