Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
The word unto the prophet spoken
Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:
The word by seers or read more
The word unto the prophet spoken
Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:
The word by seers or sibyls told,
In groves of oak or fanes of gold,
Still floats upon the morning wind,
Still whispers to the willing mind.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . .
Speak what you think to-day in read more
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . .
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and
to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though
it contradict everything you said to-day.
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
America is another name for opportunity.
America is another name for opportunity.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and read more
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul,
Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
