 Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought...  Columbia Jurist - Page 631887Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Law - 1891 - 72 pages
...dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will, — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated...forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought, — the subtile rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows not because... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Law - 1896 - 88 pages
...dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will, — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated...forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought, — the subtile rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows not because... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Law - 1920 - 354 pages
...dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated...forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought — the subtile rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows not because... | |
 | Success - 1921 - 1202 pages
...the dying man, and in hope and in despair 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 long after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Anthologies - 1923 - 252 pages
...dying man, and in hope and in despair 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, long after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Literature - 1923 - 284 pages
...lamp, Even You 'd tire of it soon, Down in the dark and the damp. unshaken will — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker,who knows that, long after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving... | |
 | Bar associations - 1924 - 306 pages
...dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated...forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought, — the subtle rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows not because... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Civil service - 1927 - 248 pages
...others in what path his feet are set. He ought to glimpse what Mr. Justice Holmes has finely called "the secret, isolated joy of the thinker who knows...forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought." For if he is wise, he will catch from them a glimpse of the infinite and so... | |
 | Telephone - 1927 - 830 pages
...dying man, and in hope and in despair 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, long after he is dead and forgotten, men who have heard of him will be moving to the measure of his... | |
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