Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it
proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat read more
When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it
proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service
like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel
you, and delight in you all the time.
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
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?
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
What a new face courage puts on everything!
What a new face courage puts on everything!
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, read more
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
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.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze
