Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion.
The mind that grows could not predict the times, read more
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion.
The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the
mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into
every individual.
Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for read more
Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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.
