...mothers speak her very sense when they say, " Children, eat your victuals, and say no more of it." To fill the hour, — that is happiness ; to fill...surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them. • Under the oldest mouldiest conventions, a man of native force prospers just as well as...

...mothers speak her very sense when they say, " Children, eat your victuals, and say no more of it." To fill the hour, — that is happiness ; to fill...surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them. Under the oldest mouldiest conventions, a man of native force prospers just as well as in...

...as others, on the surface of things. " What help, indeed, from thought ? Life is not dialectics." ' We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well upon them." The wise man will live in the present. He knows that the appearances are at least appearances;...

...as others, on the surface of things. " What help, indeed, from thought ? Life is not dialectics." " d the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token upon them." The wise man will live in the present. He knows that the appearances are at least appearances;...

... LIFE BY THE ,FIRESIDE. BY THE AUTHOR OF "VISITIKG MY RELATIONS," &c. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them. — EMERSON. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1853. LONDON : Printed by SAMUEL...

...command you have done or forborne it." He sums up the philosophy of life in one short sentence : " To fill the hour, — that is happiness ; to fill...leave no crevice for a repentance, or an approval." The Essay on " Nature," — by far the most carefully constructed of Emerson's essays, — proclaims...

...Pyrrhonists he is the prince. Can a creedless soul aid me in my search ? verily no. He exclaims, ' To fill the hour — that is happiness ; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for repentance or an approval. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life, is to skate well on them.'...

...mothers speak her very sense when they say, " Children, eat your victuals, and say no more of it." To fill the hour, — that is happiness; to fill the...no crevice for a repentance or an approval. We live arnid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them. Under the oldest mouldiest conventions,...

...sense when they say, " Children, eat your victuals, and say no more of it." To fill the hour,—that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice...surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them. Under the oldest mouldiest conventions, a man of native force prospers just as well as in...

...mothers speak her very sense when they say, " Children, eat your victuals, and say no more of it." To fill the hour, — that is happiness ; to fill...surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them. Under the oldest mouldiest conventions, a man of native force prospers just as well as in...