Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Where there is no vision a people perish.
Where there is no vision a people perish.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.
Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.
Men are respectable only as they respect.
Men are respectable only as they respect.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Come, see the north-wind's masonry,
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
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Come, see the north-wind's masonry,
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof
Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he
For number or proportion.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
