Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
We all boil at different degrees
We all boil at different degrees
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word
Conversation is a game of circles.
Conversation is a game of circles.
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.
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in read more
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
