The man is the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns the head.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDo you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled all over with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
Ralph Waldo Emersonsorrow makes us all children again-destroys all differences of intellect. the wisest know nothing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSincerity is the highest complement you can pay
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: inspirational
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: inspiration
Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by laborious reading. Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office, - to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: education-system
Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: music evolution transcendentalism
Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: humor relationships jane-austen
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