Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! Pushing to the Front - Page 358by Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 460 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| 1882 - 844 pages
...yet rising again, faint yet pursuing, hindered yet overcoming, he ever struggles forward, saying: — Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotted round hia head ; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart...great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. ESSAY VIII. HEROISM IN the elder English dramatists, and mainly in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotted round his head ; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart...great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. ESSAY VIII. HEROISM IN the elder English dramatists, and mainly in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotted round his head; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart...great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. ESSAY VIII. HEROISM. IN the elder English dramatists, and mainly in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher,... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons ; Drooping oft in wreaths of dread, Lightning-knotted round his head. The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart...great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. ESSAY VIII. HEROISM. IN the elder English dramatists, and mainly in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher,... | |
| 1902 - 902 pages
...physical being — fragments from its battle call, — the bugle call to my retreating courage : — " Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand bnt go ! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 pages
...Thunder-clouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft, in wreaths of dread, Lightning-knotted round his head; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart...great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. It seems, however, to be true that no mountain is a hero to its valley, although the proverb may be... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 pages
...Thunder-clouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft, in wreaths of dread, Lightning-knotted round his head; The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart...great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. It seems, however, to be true that no mountain is a hero to its valley, although the proverb may be... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 446 pages
...oft, in wreaths of dreud, Ligbtning-knotted round his head; - The hero is not fed on sweets, Dnily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. It seems, however, to be true that no mountain is a hero to its valley, although the proverb may be... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...disturbs our clod ; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe. 6. Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive, and hold cheap the strain ; Learn,... | |
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