Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast read more
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage
Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
