Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Words
By Daniel Coenn
First Edition
Copyright © 2014 by Daniel Coenn
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Words
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Quotes
“My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”
“Every wall is a door.”
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
“A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.”
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
“A man is known by the books he reads.”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
“As we grow old...the beauty steals inward.”
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
“Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.”
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new
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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG
Texte: Daniel Coenn
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Lektorat: Blago Kirof
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 21.05.2014
ISBN: 978-3-7368-1356-4
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