Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
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 life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher read more
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read
I can find my biography in every fable that I read
You cannot see the mountain near
You cannot see the mountain near
As soon as there is life there is danger.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
The word unto the prophet spoken
Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:
The word by seers or read more
The word unto the prophet spoken
Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:
The word by seers or sibyls told,
In groves of oak or fanes of gold,
Still floats upon the morning wind,
Still whispers to the willing mind.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
