Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe surest poison is time.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: time-management-time
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength
Ralph Waldo EmersonRaphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: shakespeare george-washington washington william-shakespeare raphael christopher-wren james-watt phidias watt wren
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAccept the place the divine providence has found for you.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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