Maxioms by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
There is always safety in valor.
There is always safety in valor.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them read more
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech,
the sea which receives tributaries from every region read more
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech,
the sea which receives tributaries from every region under
heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles
river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in
originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.