 | Mildred Cabell Watkins - 1894 - 232 psl.
...may divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do; but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion...thought and will he takes up the world into himself. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man : only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. The silence... | |
 | Mildred Cabell Watkins - 1894 - 232 psl.
...may creep into a corner and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do; but he is entitled to the \\orld by his constitution. In proportion to the energy of his thought and will l1e takes up the world into himself. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man: only let his thoughts... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 psl.
...divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion...world into himself. "All those things for which men plow, build, or sail obey virtue," said Sallust. "The winds and waves," said Gibbon, "are always on... | |
 | Cora Marsland - 1902 - 272 psl.
...divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion...world into himself. "All those things for which men plow, build, or sail, obey virtue," said Sallust. "The winds and waves," said Gibbon, "are always on... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 psl.
...divest himself of it ; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion...are always on the side of the ablest navigators." 1 So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven. When a noble act is done, — perchance in a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 436 psl.
...divest himself of it ; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. * In proportion to the energy of his thought ajid will, he takes up the world into himself, v "All those things for which men plough, build, or... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 psl.
...divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion...thought and will, he takes up the world into himself." "Thus in art does nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works."... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 psl.
...divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion...thought and will, he takes up the world into himself." "Thus in art does nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works."... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 psl.
...divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion...thought and will, he takes up the world into himself." "Thus in art does nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 psl.
...divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion...thought and will, he takes up the world into himself. — NATURE 1 believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does... | |
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every rational creature has all Nature for his dowry and estate. It is his if he will. He may divest himself of it ; he may creep into a corner and abdicate his... 
