Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
My angel,--his name is Freedom,-- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
