Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ~ The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ~  ~ Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone. ~ ~ The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty. ~ ~ Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds ~ ~ At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ~ ~ At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ~ ~ There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of can't and hypocrisy ~ ~ There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. ~ ~ Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. . . . Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ~ ~ Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens. ~ ~ Earth laughs in flower ~ ~ There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence ~ ~ When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. ~ ~ The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. ~ ~ Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding ~ Most Popular Topics:
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