The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: values institutions labels appearances
Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: values greed materialism possessions property
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: individualism self-reliance self-trust
A man is known by the books he reads.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: individuality
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate;--debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe go to Europe to be Americanized.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: united-states europe
The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCommit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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