Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Obedience alone gives the right to command
Obedience alone gives the right to command
To believe in luck - is skepticism
To believe in luck - is skepticism
Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.
Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.
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.
Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me read more
Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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.
It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Skepticism is slow suicide.
Skepticism is slow suicide.
