Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
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.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Men are what their mothers made them.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
