 Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth, Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice,...  Retrospect of Western Travel - Page 233by Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...never ripen into truth. Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be...is action. Only so much do I know as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not. The world—this shadow of the soul,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...never ripen into truth. Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be...is action. Only so much do I know as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not. The world—this shadow of the soul,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1849 - 408 pages
...never ripen into truth. Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be...is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not. The world, — this shadow of the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...since, as a great writer says, " There can be no scholar without the heroic mind, the active mind ;" and the preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, to which the monastic life so eminently conduces, being action, the world, in every age of the Church,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...never ripen into truth. Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be...is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not. The world, — this shadow of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...never ripen into truth, Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be...is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not. The world, — this shadow of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1866 - 298 pages
...never ripen into truth. Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be...is action. Only so much do I know as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not. The world — this shadow of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...before the eye as a cloud of beauty, Nwe cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but ,j there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. The...unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are 4 loaded with life, and whose not. The world... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...never ripen into truth. Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be...is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not. The world — this shadow of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 336 pages
...never ripen into truth. Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be...from the unconscious to the conscious, is action, f Only so much do I know, as I have lived.) Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and... | |
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