Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. Essays - Page 37by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Bowen - 1857 - 444 pages
...let us see well to ourselves before we accuse the mass of men of bigotry and apathy to virtue. Man is his own star ; and the soul that can Render an...or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.* I need only say, that whilst it is utterly impossible to associate with Judge CRANCH any sectarianism,... | |
| Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1857 - 614 pages
...lines, —lines which we never read without a •conscious elevation of soul: •' Man is hie own stare and the soul that can Render an honest, and a perfect man, Commanda all light, all influence, all fate ; Nothjng to him falle early, or too late, ' Our arts our... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1858 - 180 pages
...Heaven. It is inwoven with all to which we can aspire or hope to rise. " Man is his own star ; and tin: soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,...too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Oar fatal shadows, that walk by us still." This sentiment appeals to us as men, bearing the image of... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...bosom elear, " Fear God" — and know no other fear. Man is his own star, and the soul that can Mender an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate — Nothing to him fulls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us... | |
| 1859 - 316 pages
...speak, not what men think, but what they think. And so it was with Socrates — " Man is his own etar, and the soul that can " Render an honest, and a perfect man, " Command all light, all influence, all fate, " Nothing to him falls early or too late. " Our acts... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1859 - 742 pages
...Hath hid this from you ; your conjectures all Are drunken things, not how, but when they fall : Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest...or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us stiU ; And when the stars are labouring, we believe It is not that they govern, but they grieve For... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Family recreation - 1860 - 316 pages
...we work by rule and square, or by the counsels of others, ten to one but we do our work badly! " Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest...or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." Very anxious were our ancestors that the Old Tear should be decently buried — something, indeed,... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1898 - 632 pages
...its manly confession and literary beauty : — "Muii is his own star, and the soul that'can Bender an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all...or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." And Shakespere, whom Burton in his ' Anatomy of Melancholy calls an "elegant poet," means much the... | |
| Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...here her field of trinmph, but alone She moves the queen of her own quiet home. M. TRAFTON. WORKS. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. BEAUMONT & FLRTUHEE. How far that little candle throws his beams I So shines a good deed in a naughty... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...self-regard, and ¡s chiefly solicitous of its own honour. »Г. EUtry SELF-RELIANCE-a Noble Quality. Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man. BELF-B.ELIANCE. SENSIBILITY. Commands all light, all influence, all fate, — Nothing to him falls... | |
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