Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Fall Quotes, Physicians Quotes

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

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The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

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Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.

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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

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The world is his who can see through its pretension.

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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

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Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape

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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

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The world exists for the education of each man.

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The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

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The borrower runs in his own debt.

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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

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Culture opens the sense of beauty.

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

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A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

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Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

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