Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
With sudden passion languishing,
Teaching barren moors to smile,
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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
With sudden passion languishing,
Teaching barren moors to smile,
Painting pictures mile on mile,
Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
Whence a smokeless incense breathes.
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.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation read more
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
