Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs read more
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his
house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or
can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious
songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept:
the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and
tens and fifties to his door.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much read more
Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
