 A great man is always willing to be little. Whilst he sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood ; he has gained facts ;...  Essays - Página 107de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 páginas
...something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 páginas
...something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learned his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. — COMPENSATION If he set out to contend, almost... | |
 | Grover C. Orth - 1926 - 196 páginas
...tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended. As long as all that is said, is said against me,... | |
 | Warren Coutant Du Bois - 1926 - 296 páginas
...something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. CHAPTER VIII VISUAL ASPECTS OF DELIVERY The two major instruments of delivery are voice and action,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 páginas
...assailants. It is more his interest han it is theirs to find his weak point. The wound cicatrizes .nd falls off from him like a dead skin, and when they would riumph, lo! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is afer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper,... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 412 páginas
...something ; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood ; he has gained facts ; learns his ignorance ; is cured of the insanity of conceit ; has got moderation...and falls off from him like a dead skin, and when he would triumph, lo ! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended... | |
 | Sara Covin Juengst - 1996 - 120 páginas
...something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.2 Paul is saying something more in his letter to the Corinthians: that it is not just facts and... | |
 | Virginia Hanson, Rosemarie Stewart, Shirley J. Nicholson, S. Nicholson - 2001 - 316 páginas
...something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation...than it is theirs to find his weak point. The wound ciatrizes and falls off from him like a dead skin and when they would triumph, lo! he has passed on... | |
 | Harry T. Hunt - 2003 - 382 páginas
...something; he has been put on his wits, and on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation...interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. . . . Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. (Emerson, Compensation: 184) That which... | |
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