Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself read more
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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.
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
