Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt read more
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...
The true poem is the poet's mind.
The true poem is the poet's mind.
Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an read more
Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file,
Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;
To each they offer gifts after his will,
Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;
I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp
Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
Turned and departed silent. I too late
Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast read more
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
