For I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone — when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the... Columbia Jurist - Page 631887Full view - About this book
| Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Law - 1896 - 88 pages
...having. Your education begins when what is called your education is over, — when you no longer are stringing together the pregnant thoughts, the "jewels...have trusted to your own unshaken will, — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that,... | |
| John Armstrong Chaloner - Insanity (Law) - 1906 - 510 pages
...having. Your education begins when what is called your education is over, — when you no longer are stringing together the pregnant thoughts, the 'jewels...have trusted to your own unshaken will, — then only will you have achieved." Plaintiff spent two years of toil over said brief for one solitary reason:... | |
| Law - 1917 - 1106 pages
...iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii The Joy of the Thinker No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition...have trusted to your own unshaken will, — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that,... | |
| Law - 1917 - 1062 pages
...think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone,—when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude...have trusted to your own unshaken will, then only •will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Law - 1920 - 340 pages
...— when you no longer are stringing together the pregnant thoughts, the "jewels five-words-long," which great men have given their lives to cut from...have trusted to your own unshaken will — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Law - 1920 - 336 pages
...stringing together the pregnant thoughts, the "jewels five-words-long," which great men have given then* lives to cut from the raw material, but have begun...have trusted to your own unshaken will — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that,... | |
| Success - 1921 - 1202 pages
...what that will mean to you. Joy of the Thinker ^JO man has earned the right to intellectual ambitiou until he has learned to lay his course by a star which...have trusted to your own unshaken will, then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker who knows that... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - Anthologies - 1923 - 252 pages
...until he has learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seen — to dig by the divining-rod for springs which he may never reach. In saying this,...have trusted to your own unshaken will — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker ,who knows that,... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - Literature - 1923 - 284 pages
...until he has learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seen — to dig by the divining-rod for springs which he may never reach. In saying this,...and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own /SELFISHNESS is not living as one C-/ wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to... | |
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