1368 ordspråk av Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us
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Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Life is a festival only to the wise.
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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
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Life is a progress, and not a station.
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Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
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Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy
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Life too near paralyses art.
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Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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