Right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
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Right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind’s eye to read its oracles. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
The difficulty is that we do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
We are very near to greatness. One step and we are safe. Can we not take the leap? Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Of what use to make heroic vows of amendment, if the same old law-breaker is to keep them? Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Each mind has its own method. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and tomorrow you will arrive there and know them by inhabiting them. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
There is always safety in valor. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
You think it is because I have an income which exempts me from your day-labor, that I waste (as you call it) my time in sun-gazing and star-gazing. You do not know me. If my debts, as they threaten, should consume what money I have, I should live just as I do now: I should eat worse food, and wear […]