Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
enough to cover.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
enough to cover.
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, read more
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of read more
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
Out from the heart of nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old.
Out from the heart of nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
There is always safety in valor.
There is always safety in valor.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether read more
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is read more
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in
what part it pinched you.
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If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in
what part it pinched you.
[Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te
urgeret.]
