 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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...true romance, which, when it is valiantly conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. All around us, what powers are wrapped up... | |
 | James Carson Webster, Erastus Dow Palmer - 1983 - 340 pages
...the test suggested by Emerson at the end of his essay "New England Reformers": "That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness...courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations." It must have been an awareness, perhaps unconscious, of this accomplishment that underlay and largely... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2001 - 444 pages
...auguries. It is a reality arriving. It is also dear. 1 look not at the work of its hand; I follow ever. 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 beholder with anxiety, wonder,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...the fruits of your spirituol quest? How would you characterize your own joumey? That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness...true romance, which, when it is valiantly conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. All around us, what powers are wrapped up... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 228 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...life of man is the true romance, which, when it is valiandy conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. All around us, what powers... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...from his lecture "New England Reformers, " the direct and simple wisdom of Emerson is most evident. The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. All around us what powers are wrapped up... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1884 - 890 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 much, trust the Power by which it lives ?" One can scarcely... | |
 | 1905 - 936 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 and courage, and the endeavour to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart, which has received so much, trust the Power... | |
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