Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
. . . .
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Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
. . . .
Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze
And striving to be Man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
And striving to be Man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so read more
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
We change, whether we like it or not
We change, whether we like it or not
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem.
