 | Puran Singh - 1924 - 370 pages
...silent Himalayas, the effect remains the same. The place, form and mode of activity do not matter. A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. The suffering man ought to consume his own smoke ; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotations, American - 1924 - 152 pages
...through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. "A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." - CIRCLES + 1 now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me.... | |
 | Charles William Wendte - Unitarianism - 1927 - 904 pages
...to the divine ordering, recalling the noble saying of Oliver Cromwell at the outset of his career: "A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." The On the other hand, the time of my arrival on the Pacific Outlook Coast seemed favorable for our missionary... | |
 | Norman Foerster - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 306 pages
...they do not themselves understand.' V Nor does he hesitate to quote Oliver Cromwell as saying that 'A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.' Mystical in his idea of truth, Emerson set small store by 'knowing' and 'understanding,' as these are... | |
 | Literature - 1926 - 882 pages
...faith, experiment, generous imprudence — these must have their hour. Emerson quotes with approval Cromwell's saying, "A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going", and adds, "The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment." This is what the lover knows, and the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1979 - 434 pages
...identification. But he treated less familiar quotations in the same way. Oliver Cromwell, he wrote, had said, "A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." A memorable statement. But when and where, asks even a specialist in seventeenth-century English history,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. "A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Biography & Autobiography - 1939 - 660 pages
...ourselves, nay are for the moment beads of ether strung on the same ray? A man, said Oliver Cromwell, never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.147 And shall we not deserve that grace of the good heaven to let go for once our pocketbook... | |
 | Susan Howe - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 212 pages
...title is the seven last words of Emerson's essay called "Circles." " 'A man,' said Oliver Cromwell, 'never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.' Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - Pragmatism - 1995 - 332 pages
...through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. "A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular... | |
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A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. 
