 | Edith Augusta Sawyer - 1899 - 386 pages
.... and do everything as perfectly as possible, even the smallest things. London Spectator. March 30. IF you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be built ; now put the foundations under them. Thor eau. THROUGH /ove to light ! Oh wonderful the way... | |
 | Fabiola hospital association - 1899 - 94 pages
...in a naughty world. — Merchant of Venice. The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Emerson. If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be built ; now put foundations under them. — Thoreaa. The fire-fly only shines when on the wing. So... | |
 | Elsworth Lawson - 1901 - 168 pages
...simplifies his life, the laws of the universal will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you...they should be; now put the foundations under them." \ Where had I read that? And what made it come to me now with so clear an accentuation ? It was as... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 pages
...ambition, we shall purchase disappointment; if in law, vexation ; if in luxury, disease. COI/TON, Lacon. If you have built castles in the air, your work need...should be. Now put the foundations under them. THOREAU, Walden. Our minds are as different as our faces ; we are all travelling to one destination—happiness... | |
 | Annie Russell Marble - 1902 - 408 pages
...simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you...work need not be lost ; that is where they should be. Nowput the foundations under them." Viewed from the focus of to-day, which often yearns for but seldom... | |
 | 1903 - 450 pages
...present failure which is the earnest of future victory, as when Thoreau wrote of castles in the air, " That is where they should be : now put the foundations under them." It is failure as failure, unconsoled by any philosophic reflections, that Mr. Graham depicts for us... | |
 | Charles Brodie Patterson - 1904 - 312 pages
...your energies and inclinations; form your purpose, and put your whole soul into its accomplishment. "If you have built castles in the air, your work need...they should be ; now put the foundations under them." " In an imperfect work time is an ingredient, but into a perfect work the element of time does not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 664 pages
...Great men in the Senate sate. Page 88, note 2. Thoreau said, " If you have built castles in the air, that is where they should be; now put the foundations under them." This note from the manuscript "Forces" may be added here: — " Family likeness in the Greek gods.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 650 pages
...Great men in the Senate sate. Page 88, note 2. Thoreau said, " If you have built castles in the air, that is where they should be; now put the foundations under them." This note from the manuscript "Forces" may be added here: — "Family likeness in the Greek gods. Socrates... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 418 pages
...simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you...they should be. Now put the foundations under them. It is n ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand... | |
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. 
