 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1913 - 494 страници
...for curiosity and not for life. They are not to be indulged. This is to weave cobweb, and not cloth. Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...a texture of wine and dreams instead of the tough fiber of the human heart. The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 страници
...for curiosity and not for life. They are not to be indulged. This is to weave cobweb, and not cloth. Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of 5 nature and of morals. But we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit, to suck a sudden sweetness.... | |
 | 1916 - 68 страници
...NSTINCTIVELY friendship triumphed over the grave. Love was too strong for death. — Brooks a o UR friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because...with the laws of nature and of morals. — Emerson & H ERE around the ingle bleezing, Wha sae happy and sae free; Tho' the northern wind blaws freezing,... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes, Harvey Dee Brown, Helen Edmunds Redding, Theodora Goldsmith - 1918 - 120 страници
...greatly, or sail with God the seas! FRIENDSHIP RALPH WALDO EMERSON The laws of friendship are great, austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals. Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. There are two... | |
 | Jeannette Augustus Marks - 1919 - 160 страници
...of looking facts in the face. "Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions," Emerson wrote, "because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fiber of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 страници
...throbbing of the heart and the communications of the soul, no more. Essays: Friendship. FRIENDSHIP OUR friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...of one web with the laws of nature and of morals. But we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit, to suck a sudden sweetness. We snatch at the slowest... | |
 | 1920 - 1150 страници
...pretend to be of the giant race before the flood so as to achieve a greatness of their own. Emerson says: Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart. Ruskin, even in PraeterUa, writes thus of his first sight of the Alps : Infinitely beyond all that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 страници
...for curiosity, and not for life. They are not to be indulged. This is to weave cobweb, and not cloth. Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions,...fibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals. But we have aimed at... | |
 | Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1921 - 204 страници
...to be of the giant race before the flood so as to believe in their own greatness. Emerson says:— Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a 88 texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart. Ruskin, even in Praeterita,... | |
 | Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1921 - 210 страници
...Emerson says : — Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a 88 texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart. Ruskin, even in Praeterita, writes thus of his first sight of the Alps : — Infinitely beyond all... | |
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The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals. But we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit, to suck a sudden sweetness. We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God, which many summers... 
