Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
Ralph Waldo Emerson