 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...property and its cares, friends, and a social habit, or polities, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion...flatteries, hopes, — all are distractions which caus3 oscillations in our g'uldy balloon, and make a good poise and a straight course impossible. You... | |
 | 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...Property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting — everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion...work ; you shall take what your brain can, and drop the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can moke the step from knowing to... | |
 | 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...Property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting — everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion...stroke of faithful work. Friends, books, pictures, lover dulter, talents, flatteries, hopes — all are distract ions which cause oscillations in our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and dri.ses us home to add one stroke of faithful work. Friends,...balloon. and make a good poise and a straight course imposc sible. You must elect your work ; you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...property and its cares, friends, and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion...flatteries, hopes, — all are distractions which cause oscillation's in our giddy balloon and make a good poise and a straight course impossible. Yon must... | |
 | Unity, Mary Ann Kelty - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 150
...property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion...drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work. — EMERSON. * ' Conduct of Life.' 8. " The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way.'' — Proverbs... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 912
...property and its cares, friends, and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion...drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work." " Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management... | |
 | 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 838
...property and its cares, friends, and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion...drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work." " Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...property and its cares, friends, and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion...make a good poise and a straight course impossible. EMERSON. To concentrate your powers on any given obj ect — to go directly to the point, looking neither... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...property and its cares, friends, and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion...drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work." "Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, — in short, in all management... | |
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The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation ; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine ; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Every thing is good... 
