| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...concentration ; the one evil is dissipation : and it makes uo difference whether our dissipations arc coarse or fine; 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 more,... | |
| 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...concentration: the one evil is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are course or fine. Property and its cares, friends and a social...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
...given thee in charge." The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation : and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse...which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and dri.ses us home to add one stroke of faithful work. Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...thee in charge." The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one ,evil is dissipation : and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse...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
...— Psalm lxxx. u. The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation ; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse...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: 838
...sheaf of twigs." " The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation ; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse...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
...sheaf of twigs." " The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation ; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse...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... | |
| Noah Porter - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...sheaf of twigs." " The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation ; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse...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: 256
...given thee in charge." 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 iis cares, friends, and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which... | |
| National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...recently observed, " 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, social customs, politics, music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything or... | |
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