Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always read more
Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.
One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success.
One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success.
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the read more
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.
London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for
literature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for
literature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.