Favorite Quotations
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2
Emerson Essential Writings
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, an open and noble temper. Self-Trust is the essence of heroism. I pay the schoolmaster, but tis the schoolboys that educate my son. We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. Happiness is a perfume you can't pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. By necessity, by proclivity, -- and by delight, we all quote. Money which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age. See how the masses of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
"It is a luxury to be understood." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson