 Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.  Types of the Essay - Page 277edited by - 1921 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine...as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world,—as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to... | |
 | Quotations - 1899 - 136 pages
...your contemporaries, the connection of events. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine...I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine ini*5 expiation of daily nonappea ranee on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for... | |
 | Chestine Gowdy - English language - 1901 - 268 pages
...should meet again in this world. — BRADFORD. 20. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. — EMERSON. 21. The objection of conforming to uses that have become dead to you is, that it scatters... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in S expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or ex^, tenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-reliance - 1902 - 66 pages
...than the rule. There is the man cmd his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine...penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My lif e is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much »as they would pay a fine...I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 476 pages
...than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine...I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine... | |
 | Book collecting - 1903 - 738 pages
...liberty and power to save other men's sensibilities. It is better to wound than play the hypocrite. "I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life." It is the weak man who smilingly weaves his silken threads of craft around the strong man. But the strong... | |
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