 | James Mollison Milne - 1900 - 400 pàgines
...The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. — Beecker. 2. Our chief want in life is .somebody who shall make us do what we can. — Emerson. IV. When the antecedent is a gender noun which has a pronoun used with it ; as, — 1.... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 520 pàgines
...barren hours. Add the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship. Our chief want in life, is, somebody who shall make...is in us. How he flings wide the doors of existence ! . . . And yet we do not provide for the greatest good of life. We take care of our health ; we lay... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 518 pàgines
...and let those few bo well tried. . . . True friendship is a plant of slow growth (Washington) 399 ; Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can (Emerson), 458. Sfei also, Companions. Frivolity. See Earnestness. Frugality. See Expenditure. " Fruits... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 542 pàgines
...barren hours. Add the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship. Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make...an understanding we have ! how few words are needed ! It is the only real society. An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, — " He... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 110 pàgines
...3unt nrimi TTSE what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. Worship 3ttttt OUR chief want in life is somebody who shall make...us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. 3\mt mmT LOOK upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 294 pàgines
...3unt Hi-Urn TTSE what language you will, you can never say anything but what you Worship Jum» (~)UR chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. Junr ninr ( LOOK upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 458 pàgines
...barren hours. Add the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship. Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make...an understanding we have ! how few words are needed ! It is the only real society. An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth : — "He... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1859 - 460 pàgines
...barren hours. Add the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship. Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make...is in us. How he flings wide the doors of existence ! 1 What questions we ask of him ! what an understanding we have ! how few words are needed ! It is... | |
 | 1903 - 164 pàgines
...disapproval." "Tears never yet wound up a clock or worked a steam engine." — Dickens. "Our chiefest want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend." By MWL A BEGINNER in the use of New Thought methods, whose daily duties are exacting, tells with regret... | |
 | John Turner - 1903 - 418 pàgines
...battles through to victory, 347 than it is to fight his battles for him. As Emerson puts it : "The chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." It is not money so much that the poor are in need of, but the sympathy and love of friends. If these... | |
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Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great. There is a sublime attraction in him to whatever virtue is in us. How he flings wide the doors of existence ! What questions... 
