Maxioms by Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.
The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of
worship.
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of
worship.
Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
