Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
A nation never falls but by suicide.
A nation never falls but by suicide.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each
other.
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each
other.
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.
Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.
