His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not."
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
"Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness."
"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."
"To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?"
"Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron."