The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: philosophy emerson
This surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is a class whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid ; Cervantes ; Sully's Memoirs ; Rabelais ; Montaigne ; Izaak Walton; Evelyn; Sir Thomas Browne; Aubrey ; Sterne ; Horace Walpole ; Lord Clarendon ; Doctor Johnson ; Burke, shedding floods of light on his times ; Lamb; Landor ; and De Quincey ;- a list, of course, that may easily be swelled, as dependent on individual caprice. Many men are as tender and irritable as lovers in reference to these predilections. Indeed, a man's library is a sort of harem, and I observe that tender readers have a great pudency in showing their books to a stranger.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: speech scholarship
Shallow men believe in luck...Strong men believe in cause and effect
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: inspirational
Beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLife will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: inspirational
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