Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
The world is his who can see through its pretension. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
It is no proof of a man’s understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false; this is the mark and character of intelligence. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect, and all things will go well. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
It is time to undervalue what he has valued, to dispossess himself of what he has acquired, and with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, “All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect he is capable of a new energy… by abandonment to the nature of things; that beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, […]
