...your final view of life. •s * * No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition until hthas learned to lay his course by a star which he has never...which surrounds the dying man — and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will, then only will you have achieved. Thus only can yon...

...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...

...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 worked alone — when you have felt around you a great gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and in despair...

...thought that ever occupied my mind was that of my own individual responsibility to God!" — Webster. "To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well...that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair you have trusted to your own unshaken will — then only will you have achieved the secret,...

...will of man above any thus far uttered on this continent. 117 Your education begins when you . . . have begun yourselves to work upon the raw material...man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your unshaken will — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy...

...company. He does that alone.11 Some years earlier Holmes had elaborated on the nature of original work: Only when you have worked alone — when you have...surrounds the dying man, and in hope and in despair you have trusted to your own unshaken will — then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you...

...Holmes retreated into obsessive seclusion to complete the work — a period he horrifically recalled as "a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man."66 Whatever the state of his knowledge of the changing nature of accidents, Holmes's functional,...

...intellectual ambition. The younger Holmes later wrote that a necessary condition of original thought was "a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man."19 Long after Holmes Sr. expressed concern about his son's disinterest in human things, the son,...

...passed; the situation is one for individual initiative, and you are that individual. Holmes once said: Only when you have worked alone — when you have...your own unshaken will — then only will you have achieved.5 Well, once you are up on your feet in a more or less crowded courtroom, it isn't exactly...

...Wendell Holmes, Jr., described in stern terms the role of the leader when facing the toughest decisions: "Only when you have worked alone, when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude and isolation like that which surrounds a dying man, and then entrust [yourself] to your own unshaken...