1368 ordspråk av Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson föddes den May 25th 1803 och dog den 27 April 1882 - US writer
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 The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. |
| The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. |
| The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness. |
| The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore |
| The highest revelation is that God is in every man |
| The highest virtue is always against the law. |
| The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. |
| The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. |
| The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses. |
| The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power |
| The individual is always mistaken |
| The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. |
| The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. |
| The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas |
| The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community |
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