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 prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature. |
| The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild |
| The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne. |
| The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. |
| The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. |
| The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails. |
| The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the peo |
| The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. |
| The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze |
| The question is, whether suicide is the way out or the way in. |
| The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. |
| The reality is more excellent than the report. |
| The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs |
| The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. |
| The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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