Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
The true poem is the poet's mind.
The true poem is the poet's mind.
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, read more
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers read more
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
Go put your creed into your deed,
Not speak with double tongue.
Go put your creed into your deed,
Not speak with double tongue.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
