Author Topic: ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes ~ (Read 15150 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #255 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:23:43 PM »

Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

MysteRy · « **Reply #256 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:24:10 PM »

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.

MysteRy · « **Reply #257 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:24:51 PM »

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

MysteRy · « **Reply #258 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:25:26 PM »

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

MysteRy · « **Reply #259 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:25:51 PM »

His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

MysteRy · « **Reply #260 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:26:16 PM »

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

MysteRy · « **Reply #261 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:26:40 PM »

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life.

MysteRy · « **Reply #262 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:27:06 PM »

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

MysteRy · « **Reply #263 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:27:31 PM »

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

MysteRy · « **Reply #264 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:27:55 PM »

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

MysteRy · « **Reply #265 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:28:22 PM »

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love but for pleasure it degrades the seeker.

MysteRy · « **Reply #266 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:28:47 PM »

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

MysteRy · « **Reply #267 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:29:12 PM »

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.

MysteRy · « **Reply #268 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:29:40 PM »

Rings and jewels are not gifts but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

MysteRy · « **Reply #269 on:** August 10, 2015, 02:30:07 PM »

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

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