Maxioms by Ralph Waldo Emerson
When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think
they're going?
When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think
they're going?
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless.
I want to devote my limited life to read more
A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless.
I want to devote my limited life to serving the people
limitlessly.
Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.
Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; read more
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.