Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of
worship.
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of
worship.
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.
Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.
Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.
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.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
