Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Chide me not, laborious band!
For the idle flowers I brought;
Every aster in my hand
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Chide me not, laborious band!
For the idle flowers I brought;
Every aster in my hand
Goes home loaded with a thought.
Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
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.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct read more
As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
