The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished,... Tufts College Graduate - Page 1101911Full view - About this book
| Ruth Van Saun - Man-woman relationships - 1920 - 548 pages
...and crooked passages in our journeys, that would not suffer us to lose our way. " So Emerson teaches that " every secret is told, every crime is punished,...rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. " " Let man learn that every thing in Nature goes by law, not by luck, that what he sows, he reaps.... | |
| Lyman Abbott - Christianity - 1921 - 220 pages
...Emerson says, " Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every...every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty." This is but a half truth, and a half truth is generally a dangerous error. It is true that nature's... | |
| Lyman Abbott - JUVENILE NONFICTION - 1921 - 224 pages
...Emerson says, " Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every...every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty." This is but a half truth, and a half truth is generally a dangerous error. It is true that nature's... | |
| Augustine Birrell - English essays - 1923 - 404 pages
...it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed. . . . Always pay; for, first or last, you must pay your entire debt. Persons and events may stand for... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotations, American - 1924 - 152 pages
...A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life. The dice of God are always loaded. . . . Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every...rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. . . . The specific stripes may follow late after the offence, but they follow because they accompany... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every...rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1979 - 434 pages
...balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every...rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. What we call retribution, is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every...rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.... | |
| Thomas Krusche - Idealism - 1987 - 384 pages
...a multiplication-table or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself ... Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrongredressed, in silence and certainty. What we call retribution. is the universal necessity by which... | |
| Chandan Lal Dhody - Religion - 1994 - 156 pages
...Emerson) "The world looks like a mathematical equation, which, turn It how you will, balances itself. Every secret Is told, every crime Is punished, every...every wrong redressed, In silence and certainty." (Venerable Emerson) "Success lies In handing over the reins of the mind In the Hands of The Lord."... | |
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