Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, read more
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will
Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs read more
If a 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. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or
can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious
songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept:
the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and
tens and fifties to his door.
The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless.
I want to devote my limited life to read more
A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless.
I want to devote my limited life to serving the people
limitlessly.
