Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that
intense light will not make it read more
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that
intense light will not make it beautiful.
Echo waits with art and care
And will the faults of song repair.
Echo waits with art and care
And will the faults of song repair.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.
When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where read more
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Men are what their mothers made them
Men are what their mothers made them
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,
Or grew on read more
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,
Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through
Under the Andes to the Cape,
Suffered no savor of the earth to escape.
