Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.
Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community
can constitute a state. I think we read more
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community
can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we
must get rid of freedom.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
