 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...and bereave us of the power of thought, impound and imprison us. As, when there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise, — so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother. When... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 1850 - 204 pages
...thoughts and manners easily become great. We are all wise in capacity, though so few in energy. There needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise, so rapid is the contagion. Great men are thus a oollyrium to clear our eyes from egotism, and enable us to see other people and their works. But there... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation. THERE needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise, so rapid is the contagion. INDUSTRY needs not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting. GALLOWS — a cure without being... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - Books and reading - 1859 - 284 pages
...given from modern French writers in consequence of their love of effect. Or say with Emerson, " There needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise, so rapid is the contagion." (Representative Men.) Or, if two things, apparently different, are both true, and ought to be put in... | |
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - 552 pages
...thoughts and manners easily become great. We are all wise in capacity, though so few in energy. There needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise,...and enable us to see other people and their works. Again, it is very easy to be as wise and good as your companions. We learn of our contemporaries what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...and bereave us of the power of thought, impound and imprison us. As, when there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise, — so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother. When... | |
 | 1867 - 518 pages
...sound out of a Jew's-harp."t .Mr. Emerson is free to assert that as, when there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise, — so a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. " Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.''JA... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...and bereave us of the power of thought, impound and imprison us. As, when there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise, — so a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother. When... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...and bereave us of the power of thought, impound and imprison us. As, when there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise, — so a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother. When... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pages
...thoughts and manners easily become great. We are all wise in capacity, though so few in energy. There needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise, so rapid is the contagion. Great men are thus a eollyrium to clear our eyes from egotism, and enable us to see other people and their works. But there... | |
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We are all wise in capacity, though so few in energy. There needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise, so rapid is the contagion. 
