Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation read more
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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.
Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
