 Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution.  Miscellanies - Page 294by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ethics - 1830 - 712 pages
...guarded, and not in the lenst broken; for .being broken, it will not prosper.— But, Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution. This being the case, what hath been begun should certainly be prosecuted... | |
 | Sanskrit literature - 1830 - 544 pages
...guarded, and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper. — But, Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution. This being the case, what hath been begun should certainly be prosecuted... | |
 | 1841 - 538 pages
...guarded, and iw?t in the least broken; for being broken, it trill not prosper.— Hut, Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution. This being the case, what hath been bpgun should certainly be prosecuted... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 560 pages
...who have science? Who is a stranger to those who have the habit of speaking kindly ? Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which ought to be performed and is delayed in the execution. When Nature is forsaken by her lord, be she ever so great, she doth not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 564 pages
...who have science ? Who is a stranger to those who have the habit of speaking kindly ? Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which ought to be performed and is delayed in the execution. When Nature is forsaken by her lord, be she ever so great, she doth not... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Concord River - 1873 - 430 pages
...redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable to-day. " Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution." So says Veeshnoo Sarma ; and we perceive that the schemers return agaiu... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 416 pages
...last come, however, when it deserves ; and it can only come through Nature's appointed elements. " I hope it is not a fatal objection to this policy,...and beneficent thoroughly, which is the attribute of amoral action. An unprecedented material prosperity has not tended to make us stoics or Christians.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 560 pages
...redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable to-day. "Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution." So says Veeshnoo Sarma; and we perceive that the schemers return again... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 562 pages
...redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable to-day. "Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution." So says Veeshnoo Surma; and we perceive that the schemers return again... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Citizenship - 1897 - 264 pages
...calculators; her methods are saltatory and impulsive." iii, 70. "'Time,' say the Indian Scriptures, ' drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which...performed, and which is delayed in the execution.' " American Civilization, Biv. Lit. No. 42, p. 87. xi, 288. See Appendix, p. 83. 4. " I have a note... | |
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