Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
The sea returning day by day
Restores the world-wide mart.
So let each dweller on the Bay
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The sea returning day by day
Restores the world-wide mart.
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart
Till these echoes be choked with snows
Or over the town blue ocean flows.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read
I can find my biography in every fable that I read
Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation.
Why? Because I fly hither and thither, read more
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation.
Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of
me.
[Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.
Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]
The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause.
Skepticism is slow suicide.
Skepticism is slow suicide.
