Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for read more
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
We all boil at different degrees
We all boil at different degrees
We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in read more
We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is read more
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer read more
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
