When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Profession: Poet
Nationality: American


When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Our 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.

Love, and you shall be loved.

There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown.