Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated read more
In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer read more
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
The sea returning day by day
Restores the world-wide mart.
So let each dweller on the Bay
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The sea returning day by day
Restores the world-wide mart.
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart
Till these echoes be choked with snows
Or over the town blue ocean flows.
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
