 | James Gregory Mumford - 1912 - 276 pages
...tell you, they shall have their reward. "It was Emerson who wrote the homely but delightful words : ' If a man can write a better book, preach a better...sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, the world will make a beaten path to his door.' "Of course you will say that all this is very true... | |
 | Ian C. Hannah - 1912 - 484 pages
...Bishop's see. Nor is this by any means an inadmissible title to fame, for, as Emerson once wrote, " If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."... | |
 | John Howard Moore - 1912 - 220 pages
...man who makes it a rule of his life never to let a day go by without doing something for somebody. " If a man can 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 path to his door."... | |
 | Arkansas History Commission - 1912 - 942 pages
...his own teachings, said, "If a mar write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a bet55 ter mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." A little while ago one of the leading periodical journals of the country made capital... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins - 1912 - 400 pages
...he had trod, Till after-poets only knew Their first-born brother as a god. — JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. IF a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten... | |
 | John Howard Moore - 1912 - 224 pages
...man can 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 path to his door." EMERSON. " When a man dies, those who survive him ask what property he has left... | |
 | Canada. Royal Commission on Industrial Training and Technical Education - 1913 - 788 pages
...OPINIONS BY NOTABLE MEN. Man only understands thoroughly that which he is able to produce. — Froebel. If a man can write a better book, preach a better...his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Man is a tool-using animal. He can use tools, can devise... | |
 | 1913 - 326 pages
...inwardly, breathe a prayer of thankfulness to me for having called your attention to a Good Thing. If a man can write a better book, preach a better...his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Ixxv Ye Olde Colonial Style of HandWrought Copper Candlesticks I AHESE oldfashionedCan... | |
 | 1913 - 146 pages
...forgets this bit of philosophy from Emerson : "If a man can preach a better sermon, write a better book, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though...his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." But I feel sure that you have not inferred from rny personal acknowledgments that... | |
 | 1914 - 850 pages
...education should be generously supported in the future as it has been in our state from its formation. If a man can write a better book, preach a better...his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.— Emerson. No honor surpasses that of being a teacher of right things and right... | |
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If a man 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 to steal it from him. 
