Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
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?
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Difficulties exist to be surmounted
Difficulties exist to be surmounted
As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain read more
As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale,
their feet are cold, their heads are read more
The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale,
their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without
sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger,
and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they
entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and
nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society
to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of
proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application,
and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize
it.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
